A funny thing about tags

[ceciliatan]

Apparently I have exceeded the number of allowable tags here on Dreamwidth, and I wondered how on earth I could have done that, and then I remembered -- oh right, I mirrored Daron's Guitar Chronicles here.

And Daron would mostly ironically tag his chapters with whatever he felt like in addition to things like the city he was in at the time, you know, with commentary like "bart is a rock" and "yet another hotel lobby" etc.

So now I have to decide if I should un-tag some of those, or prune them down at least to ones that are used multiple times, since Daron never intended them to be used as navigation devices. Or should I just do without tags now? I guess if I actually get into the habit of posting more, I will have to figure that out.

Comments

Re: Thoughts

[totient]

I would totally contribute to the Daron Tag Fund. But also, there's a length limit on tags, and that makes some of them (like https://ceciliatan.dreamwidth.org/tag/yeah+jordan+and+i+had+a+fight+which+is+h) not so useful. I bet if you deleted those it'd give you enough breathing room for a while.

Re: Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

Oh, that's a good idea, I didn't think about the length issue.

Re: Thoughts

[ceciliatan]

Ooooh I didn't think of that either. Is there a way to sort them by length, I wonder? Hmmm. There are definitely some of that type...

Re: Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

The sort functions are Alphabetical or Usage. The latter would at least give you the less-used ones.

However, the window column is on the narrow side. Really long tags might hit the edge. If nothing else, just seeing them in a stack should help you distinguish the short (say, 1-3 words) tags from the longer ones.