[Clipart] clipart Digest, Vol 47, Issue 13

Jon Phillips jon at rejon.org
Tue Feb 12 04:20:38 PST 2008


The original uploader and editors/Admins can add tags...that helps :)

Jon

On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 20:13 -0500, Ocetalo wrote:
> Thank you John and Greg
> I see the tags system is very dynamic and effective, but still not so
> friendly. There are many of people all over the world just getting
> into the Internet stuff.
> Given Greg's suggestion comes to be (taht would be great), I'd like to
> add that people should follow some guidelines before tagging.
> God bless you
> 
> I think that maintainers, authors and people should follow some
> guidelines before tagging.
> 
> On Feb 9, 2008 6:49 PM, Greg Bulmash <oneminuteinspirations at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         
>         > It IS organized by "something", the tags act as dynamic
>         organization.
>         > Pick a keyword that fits what you are looking for then
>         refine it
>         > further down with the keywords offered along the right side
>         of the
>         > results you get when selecting a tag.  it isn't perfect
>         because since
>         > everyone makes up their own tags, but it gives you lots of
>         choices.
>         >
>         > So odds are if you are looking for a flag almost all of them
>         will be
>         > under the tag flags for example.
>         >
>         > Hope that helps,
>         >
>         > John
>         
>         
>         Perhaps letting people suggest additional tags for an item
>         instead of
>         leaving it to site maintainers and authors might help with
>         this.  Wisdom
>         of crowds and whatnot.  So if you find a piece of clip art
>         after having
>         to try three keywords, you can add the first two that you felt
>         should
>         have turned it up.
>         
>         Of course, this is one of many "wow, it would be great if
>         someone else
>         could program this feature" idead, so take it with a grain of
>         salt.
>         
>         - Greg
>         
>         
>         
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