I see a lot of people on here who are presumably still operating off of their tumblr or twitter reflexes and I just wanna try and help clear up some potential confusion about how the tagging system works here cause I don't think any of this is officially documented anywhere:
The '#' symbol is added automatically when you type in a tag
Completely understandable mistake to make, but some of you are tagging things '##art' or whatever, and I'm assuming that is not what you were trying to do. (Sometimes I even see people add MORE than one extra # symbol, but at that point I have to assume it's on purpose.)
If you share someone's post it does NOT strip off their tags
I've always thought that tumblr doing this was a batshit insane design flaw, but to some it might be expected behavior. Anyway, sometimes I see people adding tags to posts that already had those tags. Since the original tags don't get stripped, there is no reason to do this here, unless you're trying to organize your shares to be included in a tag search of your own page specifically.
If you share and add tags to a post it will NOT put that post in the search results for those tags
The only exceptions to this are if you're the OP of the original post, OR if you use the same tags as the original post. Also, your share can't be empty -- you have to add something in the title or body. Shares that ONLY add tags will never show up in site-wide search results.
(As an example, if someone else's post is tagged with '#art', and '#ArtistsOnCohost', and you share it, add something, and tag it with '#art', '#ArtistsOnCohost', and '#artwork', your share WILL show up in the site-wide search results for '#art' and '#ArtistsOnCohost', but NOT the site-wide search results for '#artwork', because the OP didn't use that tag. If you ARE the OP, then any new tags you add in a share WILL put your post in the site-wide search results for those new tags, so long as your share isn't empty.)
If you add tags to someone else's post (without adding anything else) they will NOT receive any notification about it
A lot of people do this on tumblr as a way of leaving comments instead of using the comment section. If you do this here, the OP will not see it unless they follow you and see your share on their timeline. If your intention is to just talk to yourself or your followers about a thing you shared, then great! But if you're trying to say something to the OP this way, they are most likely not seeing it. They'll just see a regular share notification.
You can do per-page tag searches (sort of)
So, when you click on a tag you see on your timeline, it pulls up all posts using that tag, as you probably expect it to. However, if you click on a tag while you're looking at someone's page, or while you're looking at an individual post, it will pull up a list of all the posts on that page that have that tag. If you're trying to do this but don't want to bother scrolling back to find a post on that page that has the tag you're trying to search for, you can just type in the page's URL, followed by "/tagged/", followed by whatever tag you're trying to search for. For example, "https://cohost.org/staff/tagged/eggbug" shows you all the @staff posts that are tagged '#eggbug'.
Tags are case-insensitive but will always use the same capitalization used by the first person to ever type that tag
This last one isn't helpful information, I just think it's funny. If you ever try to tag something '#superbowl' or '#SuperBowl' or whatever, it WILL be changed to '#SuperbOwl' because someone else typed it that way first and there's nothing you can do about it.
That's all.
happy tagging. Or not-tagging. Or under-tagging, or over-tagging. IDK I'm not here to tell you what to do
