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#1 2009-11-15 10:25:38
Tags Begone!
On a particularly nice project with lots of views I see this kind of spam:
I had to zoom out to the smallest level on my browser to see half of it. And there are:
There are zillions of projects out there with that kind of spam. Yes, it is spam.
I suggest, either remove the 'tags' section, or make it so if a user is spamming too much, yes, they get banned. It might be a bit harsh, but you do that on the forums, and the rest of the website, and it's not like tags aren't as important. They were a great idea, especially the taggers button so you can track down who said bad stuff, but they're being abused by a lot of people.
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#3 2009-11-15 10:30:59
- Lucario621
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Re: Tags Begone!
Honestly though I agree. I try to keep the tags on my projects clean, and I put tags on my projects clean, and related to it.
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Jacool, isn't that considered spamming too? Trying to get into as many tags as you can?#6 2009-11-15 10:34:07
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Re: Tags Begone!
For example, look at my project Super Smash Bros. Ball Halloween Version. There are lots of tags. But guess what; all of those tags are somehow related to the game. I tagged them all. Just ask what one of them is; and I'll tell ya.
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#9 2009-11-15 11:32:38
- Lucario621
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Re: Tags Begone!
Greatdane wrote:
Most of the tags are. Tags like 'keroro645' aren't.
No, actually he's a person that my game was inspired from. He was the one that created the idea of 'Super Smash Bros. Ball'.
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#15 2009-11-16 20:07:18
- gettysburg11
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Re: Tags Begone!
I don't like projects that have a ridiculous amount of tags so just about any search would find that project. Maybe the Scratch team could appoint a few people to watch for ridiculous tags and flag any that are inappropriate/unnecessary, and also encourage regular users to do so as well.
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#16 2009-11-16 20:12:52
- illusionist
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Re: Tags Begone!
Tags used to be useful tools, but as the number of spammers increased, they turned into 
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#17 2009-11-16 20:23:49
- gettysburg11
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Re: Tags Begone!
Nice, and yes, I agree with your point. Tags used to be useful, then the spammers came along and would do just about anything to get their projects viewed. That's why I think my above idea would work; having somebody monitor tags might decrease the amount of spam tags. The Scratch team could also create a filter for banning certain tags, but I think the other idea would work better.
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#19 2009-11-16 20:24:20
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#20 2009-11-16 21:09:38
Re: Tags Begone!
BoltBait wrote:
We can specify that comments on our projects are locked. But, we can't do that with tags.
Perhaps, the Scratch Team could allow us to turn off tags for our projects.
I guess that is a good idea.
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#21 2009-11-16 23:55:32
Re: Tags Begone!
I suggest a Disable Tags option, which people liked - but the Scratch Team never said anything about it. It would work in the same way as comments!
Here are the features:
Disable comments
and tags
You can either do the comments only, or both. It's not fair! You can't only get the tags.
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#22 2009-11-17 02:30:57
- Jonathanpb
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Re: Tags Begone!
I don't know if I should agree to your suggestion or not. 
Okay, I put a lot of tags on my stuff. But most importantly, they are all relevant to the project. You can't call that spam, and honestly, I don't have nearly as many as those projects with that spam. I only have like... twenty tags maybe? Or ten...
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