The tags 'resolved' and 'stumped' have a special meaning and are treated differently at Ask MetaFilter. A question with either of these tags shows up in different places on the site to help others find them. A question tagged with 'resolved' appears in the list of Resolved Questions on the Answered Questions page. Questions tagged with 'stumped' appear in the Stumped Questions list on the Unanswered Questions page. This gives people interested in seeing complete answers or helping with particularly hard questions an easy way to find them.

Because these tags move the questions into different areas of the site, questions can only be tagged 'resolved' or 'stumped' once. This prevents the question from appearing at the top of these lists more than once.

If you need to remove a 'resolved' or 'stumped' tag from a post, please contact one of the mods.
(tags: stumped resolved tags askme answered unanswered ) July 2, 2008 - permalink - back to questions

Tags are a way of adding keywords to your posts in AskMe and MeFi as a way of making it easier to find and organize posts. Tags can be added by the original poster either at the time of posting or later. Tags can also be added or removed by the site admins. Mutual contacts can add tags to each others' posts. Tags do not cross over from one part of the site to the other. You can view pages tagged with specific words either by clicking on a tag, or going to a tag URL, for example:

http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/heavymetal
http://www.metafilter.com/tags/heavymetal

The 150 most popular tags are linked on these pages (MeFi, Ask MeFi). The larger a word appears on that page, the more times it has been used to tag a thread.

Tags also have individual RSS feeds, linked from the tag page. Tags are not case sensitive. Plural tags do not combine with their singular counterparts. Notable tags in MeFi include

http://www.metafilter.com/tags/obit
http://www.metafilter.com/tags/batshitinsane

Tags can be combined using the plus sign like this

http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/Japan+tokyo

Tags can be combined with usernames as well. So to see "all posts tagged with obit by user 292" you use this URL

http://www.metafilter.com/tags/obit/292

MetaTalk does not have tags. AskMe also has categories which can be used with tags for more specific searching.

Note: when a post is removed, the tags for that post are not removed from the index. This can sometimes cause discrepancies between the number of posts that are claimed to exist having a certain tag, and those that actually show up in a list of posts with that tag (example) You can also not use most special characters in tags such as ; / ? : + , * . #
(tags: tags keywords rss feeds ) March 6, 2006 - permalink - back to questions

MetaFilter: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Metafilter
MetaTalk: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/MeFi/MetaTalk
AskMetafilter: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/AskMetafilter
MetaFilter Projects: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/mefi/Projects
MetaFilter Music: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/mefi/Music
MetaFilter Jobs: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/MeFi/Jobs
MetaFilter Podcast: http://feeds.feedburner.com/MeFiPodcast

There are also a few specialized RSS feeds

tag feeds: http://www.metafilter.com/tags/peace/rss
user feeds: http://www.metafilter.com/user/1/postsrss [for all posts by user #1]
favorites feeds: http://www.metafilter.com/favorites/1/posts/rss [for all favorite posts by user #1]
thread feeds: http://www.metafilter.com/12345/rss [works for all threads across all sites]
sidebar blog feed: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/mefi/sideblog
popular posts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/mefi/PopularPosts
popular comments: http://feeds.feedburner.com/mefi/PopularComments
(tags: xml tags users feeds rss ) March 6, 2006 - permalink - back to questions

Adding someone as a contact is a simple way to keep track of their contributions on the site. You can have up to 500 contacts. To add a contact, click on the "Add user as a contact" link on their profile page. You can choose what your relationship is with this user, or leave that part blank. If your contacts add contacts that information is visible in the Contact Activity sidebar on the main page. There is no obligation to be reciprocal if someone has added you as a contact. If you have made someone a mutual contact -- you have linked them and they have linked you -- you will be able to tag each other's posts in AskMe and MeFi.

When you add a user as a contact, this information will be visible on your own user page as well as your usercontacts page. Your usercontacts page contains a list of who you have made a contact, who has made you a contact, and posts made by your contacts to MetaFilter, AskMetafilter and MetaTalk.
(tags: contacts usercontacts tags tagging ) April 20, 2006 - permalink - back to questions

The "Interest areas" list shows the most frequently occurring Ask MetaFilter tags on questions the user has answered. It's a quick summary of the types of questions the user has answered in the past. Extremely common tags are filtered out of the list, and a user must have at least ten answers to have the list in their profile. Keep in mind that a user with more answers will have a more accurate list than a user with fewer answers. Update (10/11/2009): We've removed Interest Areas from profile pages for time being.
(tags: askme tags profile ) October 9, 2009 - permalink - back to questions