Please Use Tags!

[notion900]

Just to draw folks' attention to the Tags function. When starting a new thread, please tag your post if you are contributing some information that you want to be easily searchable in the future - this forum is getting very very busy and within a day or so, posts get buried at the bottom of the page, and then lost in the mists of time. This is especially true on the Camino Frances section, which is why I am posting this request there.

How?
Tags are search terms. When starting a thread, just click in the tags field below your first post. Start typing a word that sums up your subject matter, and it will predict some options. You can invent new ones if none of the options seems to fit. Several tags might be needed which mean the same thing e.g. alternative ways, alternative routes, alternative camino, because you are trying to predict the words someone might type in when searching. Don't worry about using too many tags, too many are better than too few.

If you have a substantial piece of info or research you have done, please consider contributing to the Camino Resources area (tab at the top of the screen). I didn't realise anyone could contribute to this until one of the moderators told me.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Just to draw folks' attention to the Tags function. When starting a new thread, please tag your post if you are contributing some information that you want to be easily searchable in the future - this forum is getting very very busy and within a day or so, posts get buried at the bottom of the page, and then lost in the mists of time. This is especially true on the Camino Frances section, which is why I am posting this request there.

How?
Tags are search terms. When starting a thread, just click in the tags field below your first post. Start typing a word that sums up your subject matter, and it will predict some options. You can invent new ones if none of the options seems to fit. Several tags might be needed which mean the same thing e.g. alternative ways, alternative routes, alternative camino, because you are trying to predict the words someone might type in when searching. Don't worry about using too many tags, too many are better than too few.

If you have a substantial piece of info or research you have done, please consider contributing to the Camino Resources area (tab at the top of the screen). I didn't realise anyone could contribute to this until one of the moderators told me.

There are so many things about using this forum that I do not understand and I'm not very confident at experimenting. Thank you for taking the time to post this detailed lengthy explanation of Tags. I appreciate it!

 

[Deleted member 3000]

By all means, make it easy. We don't want to require actual effort to complete a Camino.

 

[notion900]

By all means, make it easy. We don't want to require actual effort to complete a Camino.

Is that meant to be sarcastic? Many people on this forum are quite elderly and they are doing well with computers just by being here. Tags is something that can help everyone, and means that people's genuine attempts to help others are not just buried in chit chats. Why would you post so much on a forum as you do, yet have a problem with improving the functionality of it?

 

[jgpryde]

Tags are search terms.

It appears that the search box at the top of the page uses a full text search algorithm to locate posts which contain the given search term.

Just to draw folks' attention to the Tags function.

To test this, I searched on the word "function" which is not one of the tags assigned to your post but is found in the body of the text.
Viola!, the third and fourth search result was for "Please Use Tags!".

¡Buena publicación! ,
=jgp

 

[notion900]

@ivar can you comment, as the proprietor of this establishment?

 

[domigee]

This may be a 'famous last words' comment but...I've never had trouble when searching for something
I know I am tempting fate now!

 

[Tia Valeria]

Last time I tried to add a tag it didn't work. The search seems OK without it unless using the 'tag' term itself. Then you need to know how it was tagged

 

[Jacobus]

By all means, make it easy. We don't want to require actual effort to complete a Camino. [/QUOTE
Good info on the use of a tool provided by Ivar on the forum. Someone more sceptical than myself might suggest that a person commercially active in providing information and or planning guidance might find reason to object to individuals having an easier time finding information on their own. I'm glad I am not sceptical.

 

[Shston Girlfd]

I tried a search this morning looking for the location of the SJPP postal office and got no results on the forum - nor anywhere actually but it's a minor deal and I let go of it. Pretty sure someone as sometime has asked/spoken about postal offices on this forum - so its not universally functional without TAGs. Full text searches do have their limits and issues so you shouldn't rely upon them completely. Thanks for taking the time spent explaining this.

 

[SabsP]

I tried a search this morning looking for the location of the SJPP postal office and got no results on the forum - nor anywhere actually but it's a minor deal and I let go of it. Pretty sure someone as sometime has asked/spoken about postal offices on this forum - so its not universally functional without TAGs. Full text searches do have their limits and issues so you shouldn't rely upon them completely. Thanks for taking the time spent explaining this and standing up to the bully.

Here you go

http://www.annuaire-mairie.fr/poste-saint-jean-pied-de-port.html

 

[Shston Girlfd]

Here you go

http://www.annuaire-mairie.fr/poste-saint-jean-pied-de-port.html

Thank you!

 

[clearskiescamino]

If people made the effort to search for something, it can be found. We need to encourage the search function

 

[notion900]

Can I just clarify further, in response to the comments above, at great risk of being boring and pedantic.

The point of tags is to be systematic about trying to predict in advance how someone might be searching for your material in the future. Using a rather crude example, I could write an extremely useful post about that fantastic luggage holding service called Lista de Correos, but if I don't happen to mention the word parcels in my thread title or text, and someone then searches 'parcels', they will not find it. Or they might search under poste restante, or baggage holding. They will not find my post unless I used the same terminology as they do. But if I had spent a minute to tag it with all those terms, it will always be found.

You shouldn't 'need to know how it was tagged' - it's the role of the person adding the tags to use a bit of imagination on what interest it might hold for others, and how they might be searching. That's why more tags is better.

Saying 'the search seems ok' means it brings up some results, that's all. You don't know about the ones it missed.

If it's just chitterchatter, funnies, moans, pilgrim introductions etc it doesn't need tags. If a thread develops with great info further down, the tags can be edited or added to by the original poster. This secures the value of the input for the future.

The better the quality of the search results, the more people are likely to use it rather than posting the same questions over and over again.

 

[Tia Valeria]

Please, just let us enjoy the forum. Those who feel the need to 'tag' can, and the rest of us can carry on as before.

 

[SabsP]

Please, just let us enjoy the forum. Those who feel the need to 'tag' can, and the rest of us can carry on as before.

Indeed. I prefer to use the search option.
But again this forum is a bit like walking a Camino/ pilgrimage. Some like to come fully prepared with lots of guides/ apps etc...Others like to experiment and just go with the flow...
It is all good ,IMHO...

 

[TerryB]

Many people on this forum are quite elderly and they are doing well with computers just by being here.

Not sure who this applies to . Some of us were writing "basic" programmes for the Sinclair Spectrum decades ago - and have moved on with developments from there on in

Blessings
Tio Tel

 

[Bradypus]

Not sure who this applies to . Some of us were writing "basic" programmes for the Sinclair Spectrum decades ago - and have moved on with developments from there on in

My father-in-law who is rapidly approaching 80 years old began his programming career in the days of room-sized valve computers, wrote a textbook on machine code level programming for the Spectrum, and still spends his days inventing very complicated ways of doing unlikely things with computer software and hardware. I think he might be a little miffed to be congratulated on the ability to use a web browser....

 

[notion900]

A lot of older people are not so confident though: like my mother. And the forum is a social medium - even people who 'know computers' aren't necessarily adept users of social media.

 

[Tia Valeria]

Those Spectrums were wonderful. Our children learned to code with them and ours was all of 48k, the big model.

 

[notion900]

My Dad dug his old zx81 out recently. He was quite annoyed that it had stopped working. I dared him to take it back to the shop.

 

[Tia Valeria]

Our son bought a 2nd hand ZX81 (back in the 1980s) and it, as well as the Spectrum still work. We have the tape recorder that went with them too, and the Spectrum coding book.
The Spectrum was bought as a 16k model and my grandmother, then well into her 90s, was fascinated by it. When she died she left us a little money. We had the 16k Spectrum factory updated to 48k in her memory. Those were the days.