Lately I've been curating posts in different tribes and it has become obvious that a good part of the users has no idea what tags are for and how these work.
Today I'm trying to explain a few things, hoping to help those who are willing to make the effort and improve.
Tags
What are tags?
Tags are a way to categorize your content, so that others can find it. The more relevant the tags are to the post, the more like-minded people will come across it. source
What tags should I use?
Try to use tags that are relevant to your post, and that will be popular for other people to browse. For example, "mytriptoalaska" may be relevant to your post, but readers are probably not going to go searching for that. Using "travel" would be a better choice for a tag in this case.
You can browse through commonly used tags using the "Explore" link, in the main menu.
Be mindful when choosing tags. If your tags aren’t related to your post, your post may get downvotes for mistagging. source
If you are having a hard time understanding the text above, let me simplify it for you. So if you're posting about gardening, you don't use #cooking, unless a good part of your post is about cooking.
You can also have community tags. You can check each community to see in the description what are the requirements for posting in the community, what tags you can use and so on.
There's a category of users who literally has no idea what community tags mean. There are certain communities where you see the majority of the posts naming all the curator groups in the tag section but nothing relevant to their post
Tagging curator groups is a wasted effort as they are not curating based on tags. Now that we have different communities, some are niche communities, others are more general, but each has its own curators. There's also OCD that has the incubator program helping different niche communities grow. These curators are curating manually, by checking content and also checking if the post is plagiarized or not.
Posting
You can choose the frontend you want to post from and the community as well. Some communities have their own frontend, like Proof Of Brain, Leofinance, Sportstalk, just to name a few. Which means using their frontend, your post will land in that community. However, things are not so simple.
Using another community's tag has some consequences.
This post for example has been posted from Proofofbrain frontend, but because the author used the #leofinance tag, it shows up on Leofinance as well. Which means if you're browsing Leofinance, you may wonder why is this post there, as it has nothing to do with finance. The answer is because the author used the #leofinance or #leo tag.
Another case where the user can't understand what finance means.
The most common explanation you get is they didn't know, which may be true but in most of the cases it isn't. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand what finance means and once you know your post has nothing to do with finance, using the tag intentionally is clearly abuse.
You often see people using tags of tokens that rewards you most. This is no coincidence, it is intentional.
Think Of The Consequences
Communities have been set p in order to categorize posts and to be easier to navigate on the blockchain. If you're new, you should browse the list of the communities we have on our blockchain and see which one fits your interests. You can be part of as many communities as you want as long as you respect the rules.
Speaking of rules, you can check community rules by using PeakD, on the right side of the screen, each group has a description, rules and below the team members list. I suggest you take these rules seriously. Once you're caught abusing the rules, you can be muted and you lose the ability to post in that particular community, not to mention downvotes.
There are some general tags you can use in your post, regardless of the topic of your post. It worth using them as those tokens can build up in time.
If you'd like to learn more about how things work around here, here's the Hive.blog FAQ. Please read it.
Remember, we all want this place to grow and prosper. let's keep it clean. You don't want new users and/or investors to click the #leofinance tag and see recipes or dog f*cking videos.
