[wp-forums] Outstanding Forum Problems

[Vicki Frei]

On 1/19/2006 3:46:44 AM, Podz (podz at tamba2.org.uk) wrote:
> Michael E. Hancock wrote:
> 
> > 3.  The forum tag feeds
> aren't working--reported by Denis
> 
> I have been wondering about this - and I just realised.
> 'semiologic' is a tag, and it's
> one I have been wondering about for a
> while - why is it a tag ?
> 
> Answer - I think - is that users of anything Semiologic are asked to
> post any problems to the forum where the tag feed for 'semiologic' is
> being pulled by Denis. Result is that semiologic users _may_ get more
> help (given that on Denis' site he states that extra help is 'for
> hire')
> but that semiologic gets a much higher profile. Much higher.
> 
> Tagsploitation ?
> 
> I certainly see this as an abuse of tags, but then I jump to views very
> quickly. It would be odd if I posted on my help pages that any problems
> should be tagged 'tamba2' or 'Podz'
> The argument that "it helps users get help" can be easily countered with
> "install a forum".
> 

I tend to agree with your assessment.... this isn't the venue for a rant, but I 
do feel it's exploitation.   And - light thickens - I had been wondering how he 
showed up to handle questions very shortly after their postings, duh!

How about landing anything to do with semiologic, denis etc. in the stopwords list?

V