[Tags]: Improving Search-Foo

By Darth Meanie, in X-Wing

Seems to me that now that there are 1,000,000 plus posts, creating a system to help find things might be useful. Adding a tag to the front of a post title would make things easier to find later. For example:

[Mission] for player made missions and scenarios

[Ship Name] for anything related to a single ship type

[Fix] for ideas about fixes, buff, and nerfs

[Rookie] for questions about getting into the game

[Epic] for non-tournament/casual ideas

[Blog] for links to outside blogs and podcasts

[Meta] for all those pie charts and rankings about the tournament game

Then, we can just search a tag and find info easily.

Edited by Darth Meanie

Isn't this why we have sub forum topics? I mean tags are more modern I guess but the older system still works as long as stuff doesn't get put in the wrong place.

Edited by FlyingAnchors
4 minutes ago, FlyingAnchors said:

Isn't this why we have sub forum topics? I mean tags are more modern I guess but the older system still works as long as stuff doesn't get put in the wrong place.

A. People dump a lot of stuff in the main forum, anyways.

B. Certain topics (like homebrew missions) don't really fit any of those categories.

C. It could be cool if we developed a system of tags for ship types where if you searched "VT49" you could get everything from fix ideas to ship builds for the Decimator. Of course, the forumites would need to come up with a consistent nomenclature for each ship type.