[Ham-Computers] Forums - What's a Tag and a Poll?

[Philip (KO6BB)]

Hi,

OK, as I use both of these items on my OTR blog, I'll give it a shot.

1.  Tags:  That is a "index word" you can add to the post to enable 
quick searching.  Examples. . .  I post a lot of old time radio shows in 
MP3 format.  All posts are "tagged" by genre etc.  Sherlock Holmes 
stories will get a Detective tag, Horror/suspense ones a Horror/suspense 
  tag, Science Fiction a "Sci-Fi" tag, something from the BBC a "BBC tag 
and so forth.  Sometimes a single show will get multiple tags.  Then, 
somebody visiting my site can click on the tag of choice in the "tags 
area" and all show playlists with that tag will be brought up to select 
from.  Makes it easy to locate a certain "genre".

2.  Polls:  You've probably seen these in various forums or mail lists. 
  I occasionally use them to determine what visitors to my site would 
like to see posted, their "favorite" show, etc.  Typically, when you 
choose to post a poll, you'll ask a question, then give several choices, 
like this.

What is your Favorite Detective program?
A.  Candy Matson.
B.  Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
C.  Sam Spade.
D.  Bulldog Drummond.
E.  Other (comment in comments area below).

After the poll has run for awhile you can go back and look at it (as can 
others) and see the responses in graphical form.  Typically tahe poll 
does NOT disclose who posted what answer unless they post in the 
comments area.

73 de Phil,  KO6BB
http://ko6bb1.multiply.com/ (My OTR Blog)
http://www.qsl.net/ko6bb/   (Web Page)

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Jim Hill wrote:
> When you are posting in many forums, you have the opportunity to use 
> Tags and post a Poll, specifying the number of poll options.  Others 
> allow you to specify tags when searching.
> 
> What are these options?
> Jim
> 
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