I'm in ur untagged posts. Taggin em.

November 27, 2007 12:32 AM

Tagging posse: 2 questions.

1. Is the "10 Random Untagged Posts" really random? Because I just opened it up and it had my first ever MeFi FPP as the first untagged post.

2. What's the update with the tagging stats? Are we nearing the day when there won't be 10 Random Untagged Posts left? Is there a prize for the person to tag the last untagged post? Can it be a Wii?

posted by allkindsoftime to MetaFilter-Related at 12:32 AM (39 comments total)

Ok so I guess that turned out to be a few more than 2. Sorry.
posted by allkindsoftime at 12:32 AM on November 27, 2007

Eponysterical.
posted by wendell at 12:42 AM on November 27, 2007

^wendell.
posted by tehloki at 1:00 AM on November 27, 2007

^tehloki.
posted by blacklite at 1:33 AM on November 27, 2007 [1 favorite]

To complete this trifecta of horrible in-jokery, I should favorite you, but I HIT MY FAVORITE LIMIT FOR THE DAY.
posted by tehloki at 1:34 AM on November 27, 2007 [2 favorites]

To complete this trifecta of horrible in-jokery, I should favorite you, but I HIT MY FAVORITE LIMIT FOR THE DAY. grouse will favorite you on my behalf.

Fixed that for you.
posted by grouse at 1:37 AM on November 27, 2007

MetaFilter: This trifecta of horrible in-jokery.
posted by barnacles at 1:46 AM on November 27, 2007 [2 favorites]

Ack, I promised myself I would never do that. I feel dirty.
posted by barnacles at 1:47 AM on November 27, 2007

Jesus tehloki, have you really given almost 13000 favorites?
posted by grouse at 1:56 AM on November 27, 2007

LOLINJOKES
posted by tehloki at 1:56 AM on November 27, 2007

Hey, backtagging! something to do while I avoid my assignment! Excellent.
posted by Phire at 4:03 AM on November 27, 2007

allkindsoftime writes "1. Is the '10 Random Untagged Posts' really random? Because I just opened it up and it had my first ever MeFi FPP as the first untagged post."

I believe so. I've never seen any of my posts come up in the untagged list.

allkindsoftime : "What's the update with the tagging stats? Are we nearing the day when there won't be 10 Random Untagged Posts left?"

If you look in the top right of the tagging project page, you'll see:

MeFi: 13,504 untagged posts. | 20,059 tagged so far.

That's automatically updated, by the way. Tag a post, refresh the page, and you'll see the "untagged posts" number go down. So, no, there's still quite a lot to go. We're only 32% of the way through the blue.
posted by Bugbread at 4:34 AM on November 27, 2007

hey look someone actually responded to my questions! thanks bugbread, hadn't noticed that before.

this still leaves the Wii issue open, however.
posted by allkindsoftime at 4:38 AM on November 27, 2007

oh, shit! thanks for the reminder...

it's been about a month, maybe even two, since I did some backtagging.
posted by ArgentCorvid at 5:10 AM on November 27, 2007

this still leaves the Wii issue open, however.
This gives me the pleasure of closing it for you. You get fuck all [altruism]. Thank you for your contribution (unless you were serious, in which case… nice try).
posted by tellurian at 5:29 AM on November 27, 2007

1. as random as pseudorandom can be

2. stats are on the page, you can see them
2a. no
2b. yes
2c. maybe

I'd love to be more verbose on this issue, but the prize issue is a mathowie one unless you want me to ship the winner my old iMac, now running (barely) OSX 10.4!

However, if everyone could pop in and do 10-20 a day I swear we'd finish in 2007.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 6:35 AM on November 27, 2007

> However, if everyone could pop in and do 10-20 a day I swear we'd finish in 2007.

Aye Cap'n. I thought it was finished a long time ago. I remember the numbers were going by rapidly. Maybe everybody else thought it was finished because of that too.
posted by cashman at 7:00 AM on November 27, 2007

How do I view these random untagged posts? It is a slow day at work.
posted by Mister_A at 7:54 AM on November 27, 2007

this still leaves the Wii issue open, however.

I closed out the AskMe tags, and I'm still waiting for my PlayStation 3 with Guitar Hero III prize pack... buncha cheapskates
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 8:29 AM on November 27, 2007

Didn't you guys get a "comemerative Mefi-Blue" Wii when you signed up for the tagging project? I guess maybe I got the last one or something...
posted by blue_beetle at 8:51 AM on November 27, 2007

I shall endeavor to get to the SF meetup to lobby mathowie for said Wii. Thanks Jess. I'll try to do my daily 10-20 for the next month too. And of course a hell of a lot more if I lobby successfully.
posted by allkindsoftime at 9:13 AM on November 27, 2007

Is this open or invite-only, this project? I could tag a few; I have 8th-grade-level reading comprehension :)
posted by Mister_A at 9:23 AM on November 27, 2007

Mister_A, I think all you have to do is e-mail jessamyn and let her know you're interested. She can set you up real quick-like.

well, after you pass the extensive audition, that is : )
posted by mosessis at 12:05 PM on November 27, 2007

In related feature requests, is there any way to see a tally of how many each of us have tagged? I think the competition might be... motivating.
posted by nkknkk at 12:36 PM on November 27, 2007

nkknkk writes "In related feature requests, is there any way to see a tally of how many each of us have tagged? I think the competition might be... motivating."

Agreed. That would be cool.
posted by Bugbread at 1:36 PM on November 27, 2007

Yes, competition would be awesome. I tagged like crazy for awhile there, but only the AskMe posts. That seemed more useful, plus the constant repetition of "politics bush september11" tags on MeFi posts was really wearying.
posted by donnagirl at 3:09 PM on November 27, 2007

I am in the same boat as donnagirl. Did lots a few months back, especially AskMe tags but work and the number of bush and deadlink tags wore me down. But I will try to get back at it.
posted by Razzle Bathbone at 3:42 PM on November 27, 2007

(Sssh, don't tell, but you can be selective and skip some if one topic starts dragging you down. With 20,000+ every little bit helps, I'm guessing!)
posted by nkknkk at 3:52 PM on November 27, 2007

I never did any AskMe tagging, sticking to MeFi tagging, but I skip everything about politics and religion, because I don't know enough to tag them well, which means I skip a tremendous amount.
posted by Bugbread at 3:53 PM on November 27, 2007

What killed my enthusiasm was the sheer number of dead-links
posted by edgeways at 7:15 PM on November 27, 2007

If it helps, Jessamyn advised that I tag the ones I found with "brokenlink" but not to worry too much about it, and that it wasn't necessary to click on every one to see if it was broken or not. After doing this for a while now, I can see why. Most of the time, the comments and discussion - not just the link - are still worth tagging so the topic can be found by a few good keywords.

Another thing that helps is seeing that new posts (where tags are required) often have BAD (lame or ineffectual) tags. So, to my mind, anything we do to past posts is better than nothing. It doesn't need to be the Perfect Tag.

I'm still enjoying digging through some of the old posts, and seeing how the standards of MeFi have changed (for the better, I think) since Ye Olden Days when it was more of a free-for-all. It's like anthropology. But I'm kind of dorky like that.
posted by nkknkk at 8:08 PM on November 27, 2007

In related feature requests, is there any way to see a tally of how many each of us have tagged? I think the competition might be... motivating.

I recall Jessamyn at one point in a previous tagging posse thread giving us an update of the highest-rated back-taggers. I was nowhere near making the list, so you'll notice that I craftily stated the contest as the person to tag the last untagged post, not the person to tag the most.

Sorry, but that's the rules.
posted by allkindsoftime at 11:07 PM on November 27, 2007

If only MetaTalk had tags, I could easily find those previous tagging-related threads. Instead, one must search. Is this all of them?
Remembering Retrotagging [May 22]
Retrotag Project - details and requests [May 28]
Backtaggers ...? [June 14]
Back-Taggers: Ludicrous Speed--GO! [June 25]
Back-Taggers: Back to Work! [Sept 3]
A pony called Thesaurus [Sept 7]
I'm in ur untagged posts. Taggin em [Nov 27]
posted by mumkin at 1:38 AM on November 28, 2007

(Sssh, don't tell, but you can be selective and skip some if one topic starts dragging you down. With 20,000+ every little bit helps, I'm guessing!)

I'll do the ones about politics if you'll do the ones about linux GUIs and RIAA.
posted by salvia at 8:44 PM on November 28, 2007

You people are crazy, and awesome. Here are the stats, minus numbers, except for the top. The second one on the list, CKmtl, is behind nkknkk by a good amount and it drops off precipitously after that. Seriously, for an all volunteer effort that's been going since May, I think this is going well.

1. nkknkk (3,696)
2. CKmtl
3. dilettante
4. scratch
5. blue_beetle
6. jessamyn
7. ThePinkSuperhero
8. divka
9. Blazecock Pileon
10. donnagirl
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 9:13 PM on November 28, 2007

Further testament to the fact that I have reached the End of the Internet (and still with a lot of surfing time on my hands), and Metafilter is the only thing that's there.

Seriously, it's just as much fun as surfing Wikipedia or any other truly "webbed" site. Following links that you wouldn't otherwise follow, checking stuff out... what's not to love about backtagging?

And yet I am totally embarrassed at that number. Today, I'm going to take a walk instead.
posted by nkknkk at 6:50 AM on November 29, 2007

I just started tagging, and it is so neat how it adds to the site. If you add a tag, then follow that tag, you see how that post fits into the history. Every post with a tag adds a little bit.

Some of those 2000/2001 posts are really crappy though.
posted by smackfu at 9:07 AM on November 29, 2007

My grand takeaway from the tagging project (other than that in the early days, MetaFilter was a lot less awesome) is how important it can be to maintain your URLs. That I'm using buckets of brokenlink tags for news stories once hosted at giants like Yahoo, MSNBC and the Washington Post is disheartening, and those (ir)responsible should be shamed.

On the flip side, every single link to articles at The New York Times and Wired still works (and now the NYTimes articles are free). Content migration can be a pain, but if you can do it, and properly redirect, wow. I appreciate whomever at those organizations realized that their content was to be treasured, and that ensuring its continued availability was important.
posted by mumkin at 4:55 PM on December 3, 2007

Cool URIs don't change.
posted by grouse at 5:01 PM on December 3, 2007