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Personal Tags - tagging your content with a unique string

15 pointsby fbaileyover 15 years ago

7 comments

JoelMcCrackenover 15 years ago
Just use your own name. There is no functional difference.<p>There is another Joel McCracken somewhere, a principal of some school somewhere. However, my full name, "Joel Nathan McCracken", has not been taken. I've been thinking about beginning to use it in various places.<p>edit: one issue with this approach (or any similar approach, for that matter) is that it isn't easy to find the spot on the page where your name appears. A user would have to cmd+f your tag to figure out what you said, if they are interested. A better approach might be adding a link to the tag, but there are problems with that too -- places don't/shouldn't allow html content in their comments.<p>In any case, its a good issue to bring up.
RiderOfGiraffesover 15 years ago
I toyed with the idea of doing something like this ages ago, but decided against it. I felt it would become something akin to signing things, and it's open to the equivalent of forgery. What's to stop someone from creating content you don't agree with, and then putting your tag on it?<p>To partially offset that you could create a page under your control that has a link to every page with a verified personal tag. Use Google alerts to send you the links automatically, and anything you don't recognise, check it out. Have an "I refute ..." or "Name and Shame" section to highlight those occurences that are not legitimate.
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yannisover 15 years ago
This reminds me of blackhat SEO techniques! (see <a href="http://www.nigritudeultramarines.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.nigritudeultramarines.com/</a>), nevertheless +1 very neat idea!
ltover 15 years ago
I agree!<p>{241C6C98-C3BA-4C22-A91C-1811B79DB6E8}<p>Seriously, can you imagine everyone doing that in every comment here, for example? It would get annoying real quick.
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niyazpkover 15 years ago
A small overhead for a small gain. Neat idea.<p>If this idea catches on, you will have to watch out for spam though.
GavinBover 15 years ago
There's no need for it to be a random string. For instance, #ptgavinb gets 0 google hits.
access_deniedover 15 years ago
what about having a keyboard-listener on your machine who saves every input you make?