Don't alphabetize my stuff

Ok, so I was just blogging my first ever blog for myself, and I was all finished writing. I got to the tagging box. I went away, tagging what came to my mind, which was also in relation to what had just come out. When I do the tagging, everything and the order it comes out in, is the way I want you to read it. So I typed: "

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Matt C said…
Its alphabetized because the purpose of tagging is different from how you used it. Tags are supposed to be a set of independent subject-related terms (like a hashmap in programming). This is an indexing system so there is not supposed to be a message presented by that system. That is, tagging is not meant as a form of synopsis, its a way of quickly finding relevant blog posts long after they have been posted.

Also, if you post irrelevant stuff like " trains, planes, automobiles, mat, pat, rat, different, softwares, shit" then when someone wants to find all blog posts about automobiles or software they will end up at your post which has nothing to do with automobiles or software. Tagging will only be effective if you are responsible with it - otherwise the system breaks down for everyone.
Mat Chandler said…
I realized that, and figured that someone might bring up the indexing system and that it needs to be that way to for speed of search products, I just felt like I always get that last bit of information from people's tags.

As for your latter point, I agree with you, I'll be more responsible with the tags. lol

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