Common Tags

From Voice of the Proletariat

The idea is to have a short list of simple easy to remember tags that will allow effective user filtering.

Use the bulk tagger to make life easier.

[edit] The Most Basic Tags That Even Your Cat Could Remember

• funny
• life
• money
• news
• politics
• religion
• sex
• spam
• troll

[edit] Common Useful Tags

• business
• crime
• discuss - discussion threads (this should be automatic)
• hollywood
• humor
• humour - intelligent humor
• medical
• meta - discussions talking about the site itself
• nsfw
• politics
• religion
• Ron Paul - he deserves his own special notation
• science
• sex
• sports
• technology
• video
• war

[edit] Advanced Snark Tags

While not entirely useful, these are tags that are commonly used as snark.

• beating a [insert adjective] [insert noun] - started off as 'beating a dead horse' to express dislike or repetitive angry political flame threads (caution: was never funny)
• he drives a car - any article/discussion involving Al Gore
• rage poop - POOP THREAD!
• theft of services - any article/discussion involving rape (caution: will only be funny for another week or two at best always be funny)
• long headline - for really, really long headlines