Merry
09-10-2007, 09:02 PM
This was brought up else thread and I felt it was important enough to discuss in Q&A.
How should we format certain tags so to encourage a fairly consistent 'standard'? For instance, there are multiple ways to tag a Volks head mold: f16, f 16, f-16, etc. In Volks' case it could get even more confusing due to MSD carrying similar numbers so something tagged "msd, f16" would return if someone was searching for "f16" meaning the SD/13.
My personal preference is to drop underscores and hyphens when possible. I would also add a 0 in front of single digit head molds, ie...F09. In the case of the MSD tags, "MSD f16" would be the tag I'd use (since tags are comma-separated rather than space-separated).
However, since tags still don't fully support two letter searches some hypenation is necessary. In this case we are encouraging the use of the abbreviated company name, hyphen, and the doll name. For instance, Cerberus Project El would be "CP-El".
It should be noted that there typically won't be any hard and fast rule for tag formats. While we'd like to encourage fairly standard formatting it certainly won't be something that will be enforced.
So I started this topic so we could discuss tag formating and to help get an overview, as well as raise awareness, as to general preferences when it comes to tags and searches.
You can find more info on the tag system, two-letter searches and how we're suggesting to differentiate old/new FCS head molds in this thread. (http://www.abjds.com/forum/showthread.php?t=75)
How should we format certain tags so to encourage a fairly consistent 'standard'? For instance, there are multiple ways to tag a Volks head mold: f16, f 16, f-16, etc. In Volks' case it could get even more confusing due to MSD carrying similar numbers so something tagged "msd, f16" would return if someone was searching for "f16" meaning the SD/13.
My personal preference is to drop underscores and hyphens when possible. I would also add a 0 in front of single digit head molds, ie...F09. In the case of the MSD tags, "MSD f16" would be the tag I'd use (since tags are comma-separated rather than space-separated).
However, since tags still don't fully support two letter searches some hypenation is necessary. In this case we are encouraging the use of the abbreviated company name, hyphen, and the doll name. For instance, Cerberus Project El would be "CP-El".
It should be noted that there typically won't be any hard and fast rule for tag formats. While we'd like to encourage fairly standard formatting it certainly won't be something that will be enforced.
So I started this topic so we could discuss tag formating and to help get an overview, as well as raise awareness, as to general preferences when it comes to tags and searches.
You can find more info on the tag system, two-letter searches and how we're suggesting to differentiate old/new FCS head molds in this thread. (http://www.abjds.com/forum/showthread.php?t=75)