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Hi, all!

 

In an effort to minimize my moderating time on this site, tags on images will soon become mandatory. This will mean that if you don't enter them, you will get an error message and your image won't post. This will save me many hours (a few each day) of manually reminding people to tag, and will also ensure that everything that gets posted can be searched and found later.

 

My hope is that this requirement won't deter involvement and activity on the site; only that it will preserve my sanity. 

 

Still, it will be important for members to assign meaningful and useful tags to ensure searchability. Generic words like "cookies" don't help distinguish content, because everything on the site is a cookie! 

 

If you haven't been consistently tagging, now is the time to get in the habit.

 

Here are some rules of thumb for selecting tag words:

 

1. Choose specific words or short phrases that describe the (1) subject matter in the photo; (2) the occasion displayed in the photo; AND (3) the techniques used, especially if the latter is not clear just by looking at the image. (Some people use the tags to help understand how the cookie was made.) 

 

2. Another best practice is to include your name or your business name. This way, if someone searches on your name, all of your photos will come up. 

 

3. Enter separate tags as separate words, NOT in one long string separated by commas. Do not put quotation marks around tags either. (The site cannot understand punctuation in the tags area.)

 

EXAMPLE: If I posted a Christmas set with Santas, snowflakes and bells in it that were stenciled and piped with a needlepoint pattern, tags might include:

 

Christmas, winter, Santa, snowflake, bell, stenciled with royal icing (to distinguish from airbrushed stencils), intricately handpiped, needlepoint, Julia M Usher, Recipes for a Sweet Life (all entered separately)

 

More tips on tagging and classifying photos into clip sets can be found here:

http://cookieconnection.juliau...READ-BEFORE-YOU-POST

 

I will definitely alert you on the date that this feature is implemented, but it will be in about 3 weeks. (UPDATE: SEPTEMBER 21 IS NOW THE ESTIMATED IMPLEMENTATION DATE.)

 

Thanks!

 

Last edited by Julia M. Usher
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Originally Posted by TheTailoredCookie:

Great idea! A lot less work for you!

I've been toying with the idea for a while; it just comes at great cost . . . but having more time to do other stuff is probably worth it.

Originally Posted by TheTailoredCookie:

Well, I think I speak for a lot of  us on here; we absolutely love this site! Thank you so much for all of the time that you have spent on it to make it so fruitful for all of us.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Laura Dong Jordan:

Great idea. I'm sorry I was one of the offenders. I will not be a repeat offender. I please beginner's learning curve on posting from an iphone on this. :/  Please forgive me.

 

hugs,

Laura

Laura, no apologies necessary. There are far too many people posting on this site for me to keep track of repeat offenders.

Originally Posted by Mily:

For number of picture posted should be a msgbox too!!! Today I recived so many mails from the same member...

 

This is a great idea, but it may be some time before it's implemented, as these types of changes are very expensive. In the meantime, I hope everyone reads the posting instructions, which very clearly state there is a 5 photo posting limit. And I hope that if others see people posting too many photos at once that they will feel free to speak up. I often catch this sort of thing after it has happened since I am not online all day.

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