Be it noted that I need to tag my stuff; been somewhat lax.

The other point is that for accurate data collection and cross referencing, consistency in tagging should have some formal structure and guidelines.

EX: Vince Young

There are a ton of references to him: VY, VY10, 10, Vince, Vincent Young and more; if you tag all those differently, all the Vince Young references would be scattered across the blogoverse, but if we decide on a single collective tag (say, Vince Young) then they’ll all be grouped together and easily referenced.

So, the formality should be with proper names, first and last, and common specific references to make the tagging process more effective and make the resulting tag cloud smaller and more accessible.

Not to go tag nazi on anyone, it is one of the processes that will be much easier to define early in the process rather than later when the whole thing has grown chaotic and uncontrollable. With under 3,000 members, I know this doesn’t seem a big problem, but if this site should go 10X, the problem goes exponential. So let’s accommodate the software with some reasonable specifics. Of-the-wall tags, of course, are still permissible.

Didn’t mean to step on your toes, PB, but I’ve seen this process before and it is much wiser to get it under control early. Foresight, of course, is the most valuable commodity in the universe.

That said, the serious questions are more like: How do we formally reference landthieves or the aglets to carry the site-specific considerations and humor and still honor our core beliefs about these relationships? How nice is too damn nice, how formal is too damn formal? So, we need a tag preference list.

The floor is open to nominations.