Mon, 10/03/2011 - 20:08
The tag cloud currently stops in the S's. Maybe it's just a simple fix? :) TIA
Tue, 10/04/2011 - 16:50
#2
I've updated it to display 4000 terms. Everything should be visible now. (It was at 3000)
Tue, 10/04/2011 - 17:45
#3
It might be easier just to restrict the tag cloud to tags that have a certain number of uses. There are a lot of one-of's, mis-spellings and mistakes that use up a lot of space.
Tue, 10/04/2011 - 18:06
#4
yep, i'd say if a tag's only been used once it could be excluded from the cloud, and that would reduce the cloud's size considerably.
Tue, 10/04/2011 - 18:41
#5
Ah, you are stepping on my creativity! You would be forcing me to conform to a generic standard for descriptions! That is artistic totalitarianism! There is only one thing I can do! Like they did on Wall Street! Occupy 5090! 
Tue, 10/04/2011 - 20:13
#6
I'm wondering how many people are like me, who had no idea what the "tag" thingy was, or how it worked. So I started using it based on other examples I came across, some of which were tagged properly, and others poor examples of what tagging should be. I do have a question, if you posted a brief explanation of what works best for tagging purposes... and say 500 edited their tags, would those old tags remain in the cloud if nobody used a specific tag any longer?
Just throwing this out there - I only found the tag "cloud" on like day 83. LOL
Wed, 10/05/2011 - 04:38
#7
@TomS, not at all, you can still make up your own tags, it's just if they only appeared on one song, they wouldn't show up in the tag cloud.
And personally i'd say a good rule of thumb is to just use tags that already exist, i very rarely (if ever) use a tag that isn't already in the tag cloud, obviously that doesn't work if 100% of us do it, but i think it's fairly obvious that tags such as "blues", "mandolin" and "week4" are quite good ones, and tags such as "didn't like this one it sucks", "Bendy - Uplifting. pseudo jazz tartaric monster phones", and "Yoskominov will do vocals for this" are all pretty bad. Same with putting your own, or anybody else's username as a tag. Can anybody explain what the point of this would be?
The main issues though are those that follow. If these three things were sorted out, then the rest of it would be minimal.
1) misspelling. There's no need for "accoustic", "acousstic" or "acoustick" to be in the tags.
2) no commas. The tags need commas between them. Putting spaces, full stops or other punctuation doesn't break your tags up. If you put ten words with no commas, you just created another useless ten word tag.
3) extra characters. FAWM had a nifty feature that allowed you to use # and whatever followed would become a link to a list of songs that used that tag. That's why tags are mentioned in the forums prefixed by a #. In the 5090 site this is detrimental. It means a perfectly legitimate tag such as "week8" can suddenly become "#week8", "# week8", "# week 8", "week 8" and so on. You could have about half a dozen week 8 songs and none of them would link to each other and it'd be murder to find any of them.
Wed, 10/05/2011 - 05:49
#8
elephant crowd trunkated
sorry
Wed, 10/05/2011 - 05:58
#9
actually, i am torn because i love all the silly tags, to be honest, but it does clutter the place up.
it might be, this has happened before, if my dim recollective processes are firing correctly. What happened last time with this?
Though i suspect if we had fewer tags, this problem might not have arisen (like all those ones that are about ten words long, or are somebody's own name, for example)