This is definitely a good thing to avoid internally. But, I think you should add that tagging #hive on external sites (twitter, myspace, google+, church community board, etc.) whether POSHing or casually linking hive posts is awesome and appropriate.

Now I get why my feed is full of food, but I follow no food-related tags or authors 

I tag like crazy.

Most of my sins with tagging have been a few times I was slapped on the hand a few times for tagging tribes who poorly communicated their rules. When I think I understand their rules, and then I find out after their downvote and comment I actually misunderstood the rules, I learn from the mistake and move on.

Once in a while I run into people who retaliate for misusing tags because they only want their own politically correct content associated with certain sensitive subjects. I call these people the Tag Nazi's, because they are not open for discussion. I'm all in support of people using tags that have multiple meanings and perspectives. Nobody owns a tag, as far as I am concerned.

__Yes, I agree people who use popular tags that have nothing to do with the content of their work should be instructed, not necessarily penalized, to do better.__

Would it be bad censorship if we allowed blockchain users to untag posts for clearly misuse of a tag? Maybe that would be too confusing to fairly moderate.

That’s like asking people to stop cross posting 🤷‍♂️

And that user just got free promotion from Marky. Lol

Good point!

I always see this kind of posts too. There is also the *travel* tag used very bad. Most likely people feel like using it on every picture from nature, even if it's just a flower. And then my question is "Did you travel to that flower? Or what sense the tag has?" because I often search for more travel posts and I get lots of inappropriate posts using the tag nonsense. 

Hope more people will see this post and learn something from it! 

2016 called.  It wants its rant back.

You're right, tags are essential and should be done well, at least if one's using the hive tag it's important to note that a newbie might click on the tag just to learn what hive is all about

Others must educate about the proper use of tags! Thanks for these, I will include to our meeting this coming days for the newbie and old people here to remind also.

I agree with what you are saying in this post but do tags actually make a difference or do anything on here? I mean that seriously not sarcastically at all. It's probably just me because I'm somewhat of an idiot, but I can't see anyway of actually searching in a specific tag aside from clicking directly on the ones attached to an article. 

Is there a simple user friendly way of actually searching a specific tag? I don't see that anywhere on Hive. Exploring communities is no problem but tags I'm lost.

If anyone is here to read the comments and don't know the Rule of Tags, I would suggest to have a look at this post by hivewatchers.

https://hive.blog/hivewatchers/@hivewatchers/the-game-of-tags-updated-guide-2020

Lets use the tags wisely and properly. Hive on!

A proper tagging is important for SEO.
I tell that my friends all the time too.
Rehived.

we are making a bit of a push to make sure posts using #peakd are posts ABOUT PeakD
I know old habbits are hard to break and we don't want people who didn't know better feeling offended... but slowly but surely we may succeed. The #hive tag looks like it's gonna take a lot more work to clean up.

Personally, I use HIVE to irritate tag Nazis, fill up the ten tag quota, and when I'm feeling like mixing stuff up a little 😂😂😂

This is the real uselful content or post toward hive and esteem user how to use the tag on it. Nice post dude thank you  😊😊

What? I thought you have some tips about it.. just a rambling?

Wooow...this is actually a great write up and very educative.....thanks for the advice

Good work dear