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fbuskirk · RV-Dreams Community Member

Question on my first post

Ckerr · RV-Dreams Family Member

Welcome Fred. Are you talking about the Reply box? It lets me reply to your message. Not sure what other symbol you are meaning.

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

Fred,

Like Carol, I'm not sure what you are referring to. Other than the boxes for "Reply" and "Quote" and "More," I'm not sure what else would be to the far right of your posts. Is what you are referring to a box or some kind of an image? If you can describe it, I might be able to help, although as one of the moderators, what I see on the forums is different than normal users. I might mention that the "More" box allows a user to edit their own comment to make corrections or additions, and I think one can also "Report Spam."

Terry

el Rojo and Pam · RV-Dreams Family Member

Terry,

I think he might be referring to the price tag symbol to the right of the thread topic where you look at the different threads under certain topics. And I'm not sure what that does either.

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

OK. That little "tag" is related to what are called forum tags, which are "key words" to make it easier for searching for topics relevant to those "key words." Howard gives a pretty good description of those at the link below:

Newbie Question - What Are Tags For?

Hope that answers the questions. If it doesn't give me a better description of what is seen that is confusing.

Terry

fbuskirk · RV-Dreams Community Member

That's it Terry. What does it do. Let us know. You all . THANKS FRED

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

Fred,

I am actually the last to ask that question of since both Howard and Linda, as well as Genecop probably know more about forum "intricacies" that I do. However, I can give you a little bit of a lesson of hands-on where you can see how tags work. The link below will open in a new window, so you can read here and experiment in the new window of how the tags work. The link will take you to the forum category entitled, "We've Made the Decision to Full-time! Now What?"

We've Made the Decision to Full-time! Now What?

Once that window opens, look down the page to see a posting entitled, "Pros and cons between an Rv bus and 5th wheel." You will note that there are several "tag words" to the right of the thread title. If you click on the tag words, "pro" and "cons," you will see that it links to another page on the forum where only the one forum thread is listed. What that means with those two words is that no other forum thread has used the same "tag words" as a part of their set-up.

Then, when you click on the tag words "5th wheel," you will notice that the "new page" linked to has 5 different forum threads, all of which also show "5th wheel" as one of their tag words. In other words, the search benefit only works if others have also used tag words when they created their own forum threads. The drawback to a lot of people using the same words for their tag words is that one can get a lot of threads with topics that do not apply to the questions that one may have. For instance, one might be interested in one aspect of a fifth wheel, such as its towing characteristics, but all the threads that come up may relate to the refrigerator problems that one "author" was having.

I hope this has been a help to you with better understanding what the tag words do for users.

Terry