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Hi, folks! I think that it's interesting that threads get custom tags. I think that using hashtags like #ThisTag is a bad idea, because it doesn't allow spaces. I think that tags should be separated by commas, for example "one tag, another tag". These tags are private to the user, right?

In my board, there's a "Archived talk" link. What's the criteria for an archived talk? Is it a fixed number of days? I'd prefer a button "archive this thread", so in my board I only see new or pending threads.

Finally, I'd love to configure tags and archiving automatically. There should be a Gmail-like system that allows the user to configure which threads get which tags or which get archived. Thabks! --NaBUru38 (talk) 13:07, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

First, the "Archived talk" link: the purpose of that is to point to your old talk page. The existing User_Talk page would have to go somewhere, right? We don't want to lose that forever. So we archive it off and keep a copy.

Tags are intended to be short and mnemonic. Adding spaces to them feels like, well, another implementation of categories, I think.

The entire tagging infrastructure is definitely still under design. We know that they are essential in order to manage information velocity, but we don't know the exact form they'll take. It's possible that there will be both private and public tags, or maybe the "public tag" concept remains with categories, or one of many other solutions.

Your idea about "automatic tagging" is an interesting one. Let's put that on the pot to simmer.

As in other areas, I hope that tagging will profit from widespread conventions. FB has just adopted Twitterian hashtags. It behooves WP to do the same. In fact, IWBG if WP if search engines would find tags from all three sources.

That's the plan, but it probably won't make it into the first iteration of the product.