Is Tagging Still Important To A Post?
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Artist:
With the changes at MOG, does anyone still tag posts? It used to be one of the important features when posting if there were artists or album titles to link back to the MOG post from elsewhere in MOG's database. Now it appears that none of the tags on the the last three posts have registered anywhere on MOG.
It appears that the only tagging feature is just the artist info if there's a song that is tagged in the system. An example would be a new song post about Glenn Tilbrook but to make sure that older fans of his work with Squeeze would be made aware of his latest musical output would be to tag the post with other tags like "Squeeze", "Chris Difford", "Paul Carrack", "Jools Holland", ect. but the tags no longer appear on MOG posts or work in the MOG search engine. The only way this post will show up in the database search is if someone is checking out Billy Preston or his song "Will It Go Round In Circles" which was tagged in artist info but nothing will show up in other info tags.
Thoughts?
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Comments (9)
I honestly don't know if tagging is working but there's one reason I don't think it is/was.
A few months ago I went to see what MOG had about Band of Skulls, an AMAZING band I had gotten into in 2009 and had seen at Lollapalooza last August. I was shocked that there was nothing on MOG about Band of Skulls. Nothing.
And that is just not possible, right?
So tagging is broken, maybe.
you could always let them know at QA@mog.com
they actually pay attention when you email them :)
Maybe. Must be, because the posts from the last few years that even tag artists, albums and song titles do not work in the MOG search engine at the top right of the website if the music or artist is no longer part of the audio stream database. That's a shame.
Of course the way around this is to leave the MOG website and use a search engine like Google. We posted about the Hudson Brothers almost three years ago on MOG and can't find it in a MOG search because even though sites like All Music Guide have the Hudson Brothers in their database (or retail sites like Amazon) have plenty of info, it's odd that we have to take another step outside of MOG in order to find something on MOG like typing in "Hudson Brothers on MOG" on Google or Yahoo's search engines to get a result. Sort of backwards and time consuming but hopefully something that will get fixed in any future upgrades of MOG.
I definitely think tags have a purpose somehow in a way I don't understand. Perhaps for data tracking reasons on the backend but on the surface, it seems like you nailed it - it just helps beef up an artist page.
I'll still tag just in case. Can't hurt.
Still tagging as well as a precaution just in case the old features return.
:=)
Apologies to anyone looking for info on Billy Preston and having to read this posted question.
I would say yes..I think some old tags work still even for non-system things..anyway, more important are the other tags at the bottom..I always put MOG and the artist in the other info line..then I google the artist and mog to find the post..I archive 'em on the profile anyway..but when I look for someone elses post sometimes I can find it that way..but yeah, in general the artist tags aren't seeming to work for everybody.
Another interesting way tags are used in Mogland are for page features. I remember when Post # 100 was featured on the Mog page and it was accompanied by 4 photos. I only remember two fo them - Vanilla Ice and The Killers, both of whom I tagged.
A while back I asked MOG Tech honcho T.J. Fowler about this, and he said that MOG compiles the Other Tags data in case it might be useful in the future. It's a shame that tagging can't be more consistent, because, for instance, we often need to know if we're about to duplicate someone else's post. Also, why can't a post's tags cover more than one artist/group, because many posts are about more than one. Maybe it's too complicated technically for MOG to construct such a system.