Comments on: Identica’s Unwritten Rules http://pthree.org/2010/08/19/identicas-unwritten-rules/ Linux. GNU. Freedom. Fri, 17 May 2013 20:46:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6-beta2-24176 By: dino http://pthree.org/2010/08/19/identicas-unwritten-rules/#comment-116513 dino Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:45:05 +0000 http://pthree.org/?p=1465#comment-116513 “5. Don’t use the group tag and the hashtag for the same word in a single post. You only need to use the tag once. Using the group tag again or using a hashtag on the some word as the group tag doesn’t provide any extra functionality. When people navigate their browsers to http://identi.ca/tag/foo, or click on the hashtag “#foo”, they will see “foo” group tags and hashtags. So, having it once in your post will reveal it to that query. Any additional tagging on the same word in the same post is just silly.”

Maybe identi.ca has changed since you posted this. It’s just not true that when I nagivate to http://identi.ca/tag/foo I see all usages of #foo and !foo. The group-tagged things are not included.

Makes it difficult to follow a topic, have to read both tag/foo and group/foo separately to get everything everyone is saying.

]]> By: Samat Jain http://pthree.org/2010/08/19/identicas-unwritten-rules/#comment-111095 Samat Jain Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:39:00 +0000 http://pthree.org/?p=1465#comment-111095 A phrase worth repeating from @evan: think of group tags not as tags, but “addresses”.

You’re sending a message to millions of people when you use a group address. Do you really need to when you RT or send your off-topic message?

]]> By: robsanchez http://pthree.org/2010/08/19/identicas-unwritten-rules/#comment-111088 robsanchez Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:36:36 +0000 http://pthree.org/?p=1465#comment-111088 robsanchez’s status on Friday, 20-Aug-10 17:36:25 PHT…

RT @toros Aaron Toponce: Identica’s Unwritten Rules http://goo.gl/em74 !identica…

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