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Molybdenum · 2012-08-26 11:37:19

see [title v]

I'm just making sure before I flag them.

Whoa, look at all of them:
http://www.google.com/#q=site:scratch.mit.edu+tags+waffles
http://www.google.com/#q=site:scratch.mit.edu+tags+%22*+was+here%22

Last edited by Molybdenum (2012-08-26 11:39:51)

BirdByte · 2012-08-26 11:42:03

If they are not relevant to the project they need to be flagged.

JH1010 · 2012-08-26 12:30:46

I was once viewing a project with the tags a, b, c and d. I flagged them all. BirdByte! You're finally a Scratcher!

Last edited by JH1010 (2012-08-26 12:31:31)

BirdByte · 2012-08-26 12:35:09

JH1010 wrote:
I was once viewing a project with the tags a, b, c and d. I flagged them all. BirdByte! You're finally a Scratcher!

I have a signature already. tongue

Molybdenum · 2012-08-26 16:06:17

BirdByte wrote:
If they are not relevant to the project they need to be flagged.

Ok.

RedRocker227 · 2012-08-26 16:22:29

Waffles is statistically one of the most common tags used so good luck with flagging all of them.

Molybdenum · 2012-08-26 16:24:57

RedRocker227 wrote:
Waffles is statistically one of the most common tags used so good luck with flagging all of them.

I'll try. But you can't really make a bot to do it, as some projects might be "how to cook waffles" or "what is your favorite type of waffle?".

Molybdenum · 2012-08-26 16:38:18

Something's wrong. I've flagged a few spam tags, and now the "waffles" tags don't have a [flag] by it.

JH1010 · 2012-08-26 16:46:08

Molybdenum wrote:
Something's wrong. I've flagged a few spam tags, and now the "waffles" tags don't have a [flag] by it.

The same thing just happened to me! But after only 1 waffles tag!

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Molybdenum · 2012-08-26 17:02:03

JH1010 wrote:
Molybdenum wrote:
Something's wrong. I've flagged a few spam tags, and now the "waffles" tags don't have a [flag] by it.
The same thing just happened to me! But after only 1 waffles tag!

Whoa, now I can't flag "[+][flag]" tags.

coolhogs · 2012-08-26 21:34:23

Uh, what happened to that... post?

[/offtopic]

Yeah, you definitely should...

cheddargirl · 2012-08-26 21:44:35

Molybdenum wrote:
JH1010 wrote:
Molybdenum wrote:
Something's wrong. I've flagged a few spam tags, and now the "waffles" tags don't have a [flag] by it.
The same thing just happened to me! But after only 1 waffles tag!
Whoa, now I can't flag "[+][flag]" tags.

The flag system lets you only flag a tag once. After the tag is flagged, you won't be able to flag the same tag again.

Wes64 · 2012-08-26 21:47:49

cheddargirl wrote:
Molybdenum wrote:
JH1010 wrote:

The same thing just happened to me! But after only 1 waffles tag!
Whoa, now I can't flag "[+][flag]" tags.
The flag system lets you only flag a tag once. After the tag is flagged, you won't be able to flag the same tag again.

thats silly. thats preventing a good thing: removal of spam. it should be changed

cheddargirl · 2012-08-26 22:00:46

Wes64 wrote:
cheddargirl wrote:
Molybdenum wrote:

Whoa, now I can't flag "[+][flag]" tags.
The flag system lets you only flag a tag once. After the tag is flagged, you won't be able to flag the same tag again.
thats silly. thats preventing a good thing: removal of spam. it should be changed

Well, the tag flag system was designed for the removal of really bad tags (like tags that are made up of inappropriate words), it wasn't designed well for, well, tag trends like "waffles".

For Scratch 2.0, the tag system might change, based on a survey about tag usage that appeared earlier in June. How it will look like in Scratch 2.0 is unknown yet.

jji7skyline · 2012-08-27 00:02:07

Waffles are always relevant tongue

soniku3 · 2012-08-27 01:53:10

jji7skyline wrote:
Waffles are always relevant

jvvg · 2012-08-27 09:12:25

jji7skyline wrote:
Waffles are always relevant

What about a project explaining how to make waffles? tongue

henley · 2012-08-27 09:16:19

Few people on this thread are old enough on Scratch to remember the peak of the Waffle trend. I'd say it peaked around the third quarter of Scratch 1.2. I'm not sure why it started, but I remember that almost every single project I saw had "waffles" as one of the tags.

Good times...

JH1010 · 2012-08-27 10:20:42

henley wrote:
Few people on this thread are old enough on Scratch to remember the peak of the Waffle trend. I'd say it peaked around the third quarter of Scratch 1.2. I'm not sure why it started, but I remember that almost every single project I saw had "waffles" as one of the tags.

Good times...

In about 4 years I'll probably be saying stuff like that.

chrisbown · 2012-08-27 14:12:22

jji7skyline wrote:
Waffles are always relevant

no
theyr'e not, i have flagged about 1000 tags saying waffles.

henley · 2012-08-27 18:13:22

chrisbown wrote:
jji7skyline wrote:
Waffles are always relevant
no
theyr'e not, i have flagged about 1000 tags saying waffles.

That was a joke, and there's no need to hate a trend.

Honestly, what's really wrong with the "waffles" tag?

Wes64 · 2012-08-27 19:03:27

henley wrote:
chrisbown wrote:
jji7skyline wrote:
Waffles are always relevant
no
theyr'e not, i have flagged about 1000 tags saying waffles.
That was a joke, and there's no need to hate a trend.

Honestly, what's really wrong with the "waffles" tag?

its irrelevant spam

harmless, but still spam

henley · 2012-08-27 20:40:20

Wes64 wrote:
henley wrote:
chrisbown wrote:

no
theyr'e not, i have flagged about 1000 tags saying waffles.
That was a joke, and there's no need to hate a trend.

Honestly, what's really wrong with the "waffles" tag?
its irrelevant spam

harmless, but still spam

What makes it spam? It's just a trend, and if people want to tag a project with "waffles" you shouldn't burden the Scratch Team with having to review each and every flag you made one by one.

OverPowered · 2012-08-27 22:04:51

henley wrote:
Wes64 wrote:
henley wrote:
That was a joke, and there's no need to hate a trend.

Honestly, what's really wrong with the "waffles" tag?
its irrelevant spam

harmless, but still spam
What makes it spam? It's just a trend, and if people want to tag a project with "waffles" you shouldn't burden the Scratch Team with having to review each and every flag you made one by one.

+1!
It's not worth it for anyone to flag tags like "waffles," which merely wastes up your and the Scratch Team's time. Instead, create a project about how people are wasting time by tagging projects with "waffles".

chrisbown · 2012-08-28 04:41:32

henley wrote:
chrisbown wrote:
jji7skyline wrote:
Waffles are always relevant
no
theyr'e not, i have flagged about 1000 tags saying waffles.
That was a joke, and there's no need to hate a trend.

Honestly, what's really wrong with the "waffles" tag?

waffles are waffles, a project with no waffles and tagged waffles is showing off and spam.
it's the users responsibility to tag projects, if someone else tagged it something irrelevant, then it is not the uswers fault and should be flagged.

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#1 2012-08-26 11:37:19

Do we flag all spam tags (such as "waffles" and "////")?

#2 2012-08-26 11:42:03

Re: Do we flag all spam tags (such as "waffles" and "////")?

#3 2012-08-26 12:30:46

Re: Do we flag all spam tags (such as "waffles" and "////")?

#4 2012-08-26 12:35:09

Re: Do we flag all spam tags (such as "waffles" and "////")?

JH1010 wrote:

#5 2012-08-26 16:06:17

Re: Do we flag all spam tags (such as "waffles" and "////")?

BirdByte wrote:

#6 2012-08-26 16:22:29

Re: Do we flag all spam tags (such as "waffles" and "////")?

#7 2012-08-26 16:24:57

Re: Do we flag all spam tags (such as "waffles" and "////")?

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#8 2012-08-26 16:38:18

Re: Do we flag all spam tags (such as "waffles" and "////")?

#9 2012-08-26 16:46:08

Re: Do we flag all spam tags (such as "waffles" and "////")?

Molybdenum wrote:

#10 2012-08-26 17:02:03

Re: Do we flag all spam tags (such as "waffles" and "////")?

JH1010 wrote:

Molybdenum wrote:

#11 2012-08-26 21:34:23

Re: Do we flag all spam tags (such as "waffles" and "////")?

#12 2012-08-26 21:44:35

Re: Do we flag all spam tags (such as "waffles" and "////")?

Molybdenum wrote:

JH1010 wrote:

Molybdenum wrote:

#13 2012-08-26 21:47:49

Re: Do we flag all spam tags (such as "waffles" and "////")?

cheddargirl wrote:

Molybdenum wrote:

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#14 2012-08-26 22:00:46

Re: Do we flag all spam tags (such as "waffles" and "////")?

Wes64 wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

Molybdenum wrote:

#15 2012-08-27 00:02:07

Re: Do we flag all spam tags (such as "waffles" and "////")?

#16 2012-08-27 01:53:10

Re: Do we flag all spam tags (such as "waffles" and "////")?

jji7skyline wrote:

#17 2012-08-27 09:12:25

Re: Do we flag all spam tags (such as "waffles" and "////")?

jji7skyline wrote:

#18 2012-08-27 09:16:19

Re: Do we flag all spam tags (such as "waffles" and "////")?

#19 2012-08-27 10:20:42

Re: Do we flag all spam tags (such as "waffles" and "////")?

henley wrote:

#20 2012-08-27 14:12:22

Re: Do we flag all spam tags (such as "waffles" and "////")?

jji7skyline wrote:

#21 2012-08-27 18:13:22

Re: Do we flag all spam tags (such as "waffles" and "////")?

chrisbown wrote:

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#22 2012-08-27 19:03:27

Re: Do we flag all spam tags (such as "waffles" and "////")?

henley wrote:

chrisbown wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

#23 2012-08-27 20:40:20

Re: Do we flag all spam tags (such as "waffles" and "////")?

Wes64 wrote:

henley wrote:

chrisbown wrote:

#24 2012-08-27 22:04:51

Re: Do we flag all spam tags (such as "waffles" and "////")?

henley wrote:

Wes64 wrote:

henley wrote: