{"id":134,"date":"2007-11-25T03:38:02","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T11:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheldodge.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/25\/proposal-new-tag-system-for-etsy\/"},"modified":"2007-11-25T03:38:02","modified_gmt":"2007-11-25T11:38:02","slug":"proposal-new-tag-system-for-etsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/2007\/11\/25\/proposal-new-tag-system-for-etsy\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposal: New Tag System for Etsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of talk lately (well, complaints really) about mistagging on Etsy, which results in wonky categorization and frustrating searches. I believe that most mistagging is done by people who do not understand how to use tags according to Etsy&#8217;s rules. I propose this very simple way of reducing mistagging on Etsy. It consists of asking a few simple questions each time a new listing is created.<\/p>\n<p>I propose also doing away with &#8220;suggested tags&#8221; because, quite frankly, most of them end up being rather silly.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps after the user selects the main category, the subcategories should be listed, but no more suggested tags after that.<\/p>\n<p>See the flow chart below (No, I&#8217;m not graphics genius&#8230;) and see what you think.<\/p>\n<p>Make your voice heard in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/forums_thread.php?thread_id=5337494\">the Etsy forums!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of talk lately (well, complaints really) about mistagging on Etsy, which results in wonky categorization and frustrating searches. I believe that most mistagging is done by people who do not understand how to use tags according to Etsy&#8217;s rules. I propose this very simple way of reducing mistagging on Etsy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}