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BobbyT

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Why is every post in the politics forum tagged with "o'bungle, obungle"? Judging by the people to whose threads these tags are associated, I seriously doubt they are tagging their own threads this way. Can people tag threads that other people have topposted?
 
Interesting question, but I don't have a quick answer, BobbyT. I can put a tag on any post but I don't know if you can. Why don't you go to the bottom of someone's post and see if you can tag it. I am thinking you will be able to tag anyone's post, but I'm not sure. And if that is the case, then I'm willing to bet that someone is highly amused by the term "O. Bungle" and if you check posts over the board, you will easily be able to discover exactly who tends to like that name, thus, the author of the tags.

How's your Sherlock-Homery ability tonight?
 
It's been that way since the buttons disappeared. I don't think that any of our resident trolls are quite anal retentive enough to perfectly replicate it in every post on this website.

Then again...
 
Jen said:
Interesting question, but I don't have a quick answer, BobbyT. I can put a tag on any post but I don't know if you can. Why don't you go to the bottom of someone's post and see if you can tag it. I am thinking you will be able to tag anyone's post, but I'm not sure. And if that is the case, then I'm willing to bet that someone is highly amused by the term "O. Bungle" and if you check posts over the board, you will easily be able to discover exactly who tends to like that name, thus, the author of the tags.

How's your Sherlock-Homery ability tonight?
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Interesting answer. If there's a way for me to tag someone else's top post, I haven't found it. Therefore, in Sherlock Holmes-ish fashion, I'm going to have to conclude that since you say that you, a mod, can tag anyone's post, that the other mods can do so as well. So the real question is which mod is tagging other people's posts, why are they doing it, and shouldn't it be against the mods code of ethics or whatever it is (if anything) you are bound by? Tagging other people's posts, especially with something inflammatory, should be disallowed.
 
So you aren't able to tag anyone else's post? Interesting indeed. Do you know how to check that? I believe you will find that you can tag any thread.

I'm thinking you have wasted a lot of time looking for some sort of moderator breach of conduct that doesn't exist.
Such an interesting scenario of presumed ethics and hoped for violations. However, since you are neither a moderator nor an administrator, whether a moderator-made tag is disallowed or not just isn't and never will be up to you.


BobbyT said:
Interesting answer. If there's a way for me to tag someone else's top post, I haven't found it. Therefore, in Sherlock Holmes-ish fashion, I'm going to have to conclude that since you say that you, a mod, can tag anyone's post, that the other mods can do so as well. So the real question is which mod is tagging other people's posts, why are they doing it, and shouldn't it be against the mods code of ethics or whatever it is (if anything) you are bound by? Tagging other people's posts, especially with something inflammatory, should be disallowed.
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Jen said:
So you aren't able to tag anyone else's post? Interesting indeed. Do you know how to check that? I believe you will find that you can tag any thread.

I'm thinking you have wasted a lot of time looking for some sort of moderator breach of conduct that doesn't exist.
Such an interesting scenario of presumed ethics and hoped for violations. However, since you are neither a moderator nor an administrator, whether a moderator-made tag is disallowed or not just isn't and never will be up to you.
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You can't tag a post that doesn't already have tags, can you? You can't delete the original poster's tags either. Something devious is amiss here.
 
Admittedly I don't know anything about tags.........how they're used or anything. How about I look into it tomorrow? I'll see what I can find out about it and if something is going on, I'll let you guys know and/or see if we can get it fixed.

Hopefully someone will come onto this thread tomorrow and give you an adequate explanation.

Jen
 
I do not see that same tag this morning on new posts but did see it when you posted this question so either Dave fixed it or someone was playing with the tags. Ideally if someone played a tag game yesterday that is done and they stopped.
 
Just had a look at "Add/Edit tags" - seems anyone can take off tags, and/or add tags to any post. I could have added another two tags to your post.
 
So if someone tags all the posts on a board as appeared to be the case, I'd note the tagger would be easy to spot. Hopefully, if that is the case, they found a new hobby.
 
Jen said:
So you aren't able to tag anyone else's post? Interesting indeed. Do you know how to check that? I believe you will find that you can tag any thread.

I'm thinking you have wasted a lot of time looking for some sort of moderator breach of conduct that doesn't exist.
Such an interesting scenario of presumed ethics and hoped for violations. However, since you are neither a moderator nor an administrator, whether a moderator-made tag is disallowed or not just isn't and never will be up to you.
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Actually, Jen, I wasn't "spending a lot of time looking for some sort of moderator breach of conduct" (paranoid much?). I was curious and a little insulted by the tags - that someone not familiar with this site may well attribute to the authors of the threads - and didn't seem to be able to tag other's posts; apparently I was wrong about that but your original answer seemed to indicate that perhaps only mods could tag other people's posts.

But thank you for your thoughtful response, I will certainly keep in mind that "since I am neither a moderator or an administrator ..... [it will] never be up to me." That snotty and unnecessary comment from you highlights why I am sorry that the LOC forum went away - at least there I could ask a question and get a respectful answer.

Edited to add - and oh look, the tags are back this evening. Shocking. It appears that someone is trying very hard to get yet another feature disabled by screwing it up for everyone.
 
Sorry I sounded "snotty". My sense of humor sometimes doesn't translate well. I was trying to make light of the whole thing until I realized that it was actually a problem and I had no solution. The better thing for me to have done would have been to just ignore it. But if there is a glitch, hopefully someone can see what has been said here and help fix it. It is way over my head.

Sorry again for sounding snotty. :sorry: I am appropriately sheepish.

BobbyT said:
Actually, Jen, I wasn't "spending a lot of time looking for some sort of moderator breach of conduct" (paranoid much?). I was curious and a little insulted by the tags - that someone not familiar with this site may well attribute to the authors of the threads - and didn't seem to be able to tag other's posts; apparently I was wrong about that but your original answer seemed to indicate that perhaps only mods could tag other people's posts.

But thank you for your thoughtful response, I will certainly keep in mind that "since I am neither a moderator or an administrator ..... [it will] never be up to me." That snotty and unnecessary comment from you highlights why I am sorry that the LOC forum went away - at least there I could ask a question and get a respectful answer.
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I particularly like pinkknickers ROFL.

I have a feeling tags are now going to be the rage here THANKS to YOU! ;)
 
BobbyT said:
Why is every post in the politics forum tagged with "o'bungle, obungle"? Judging by the people to whose threads these tags are associated, I seriously doubt they are tagging their own threads this way. Can people tag threads that other people have topposted?
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that's the work of 12 year old Alinvegas.

I vote for disabling the tags feature.
 
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