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sam_ says:
The Flickr universe is carefully organized, categorized and tagged. Tags provide context, adding meaning to user's photographs. But truth may also be revealed through careful observation and study of the tags. The careful student of Flickr tags is liable to reveal many shocking truths about Flickr members. But one mus surely take care not to read too much into the tags or risk being consumed by them...

Here are but a few "truths" revealed by my intense and strenuous study of the...

striatic says:
You can find some specifics examples of how people are using tags in the tagography thread.

a bunch of flickr users have made some suggestions for tags in this thread, and i've tried to compile a thorough a list as possible here, from those suggestions ~ feel free to pick and choose from this list as you see fit:

~the 'medium' tags~

photo: this one is easy .. the images that come out of your camera

drawing:images that you draw, if you draw .. or if you upload a snagged...

caterina says:
Someone asked me recently for interesting tags. I came up with goat. Do you ever just sit around and try to think of interesting things to enter into the search field on the tags page? I do that sometimes. Clown is another good one.

Krisjohn says:
I've noticed an increasing number of members using tags that are the opposite of something in the picture. An easy example is to take a guy in really bad drag and label it "hot".

This is just a general, polite request for people to please tag tags seriously. A service like Flickr lives or dies by your ability to actually find stuff (as well as a strong community).

Thank you.

OneEighteen says:
Does Flickr censor certain words from tags?

I took a photo of a ship named "Sea Cod" and tried to put that term (with quote marks so it shows a two word tag) and the tag doesn't appear. If I join it as "Seacod" the tag appears. If I try to enter "SeaCod" that won't go either. I can put "Sea Cod" in a sentence with quotes and it will put the sentence in there.

So, is "Sea Cod" something really profane in some language or what? It's...

andyofne says:
I read the linked story on cnet.com earlier today and I was curious, having never tagged another user's photos on flickr, is that something you do?

news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10284150-2.html?tag=newsLead...

P.S. - I'm not even sure why the guy compares flickr to facebook to begin with.

musicorso says:
This title is certainly provocative, it's meant to let know my feeling that I have been under attack yesterday:
A flickr member whom I didn't know has suddenly tagged an impressive amount of photos in my stream; I tried to count them but lost the count, certainly more than a few dozens, maybe hundreds; those tags were not words referring to the image, but some mixture of numbers and letters, like 0a32b687, etc.
Each tag was different, obviously meant to point to the photo precisely; checking...

galbert says:
I have just discovered that we can tag other's pictures ! I would just like to know if many people use this feature and how.
Personnally i do not tag my images because i am just too lazy, this is nice if some1 do it for me :)

Yer Sister says:
"We" have been noticing a few people tagging their photos with their screen name lately. I wondered what is the purpose of this? (I could say a few mean things here but I won't.) If people are looking for your photos, wouldn't they just go to your photo stream, rather than searching by tag? Is there some other usefulness to this practice that I'm missing the point of?

yulek says:
recently i found a strange comment under two of my images. [a lady] started telling me that i need to retag these photos because, she claims, the tags were misleading. specifically, i shot the images in Lazienki Park, Warsaw, Poland. so i tagged them with "lazienki", "warsaw", and "poland" along with other tags that help me organize my images. her claim is that, although the images were shot there, there's not enough of the actual location to warrant the...

fresh tomatoes says:
is it just a coincidence that these two revolutionary decisions were made/announced nearly at the same time? or is this part of something far bigger? and if so, what?

discuss your conspiracy theories here.

pierre

steeev says:
Theres a new way to tag your photos to indicate flickr users are appearing in them.

Quite a few users have already started doing it. The way it works is to use the following "machine tag" notation, for each flickr user in the photo

"flickr:userid=[flickr-userid]"

(replacing [flickr-userid] with the userid of the person in the photo)
the userid is the thing that looks like 32463453@N00 and you can find out what a users userid is by visiting idgettr.com/

Another way to get...

elifguezel says:
Hi,

I am wondering why people do tag? Just for organisation of their own photo collection, to share their photos with family and friends or for self-promotion? So, tell me, what are your motivations?

I am a student at Hildesheim University in Germany and I am doing a research about tagging in respect of cultural factors. But before I can analyze the intercultural part I need to know in generel what are the motivations to tag?

So, I would be very pleased if you could help...

tabhastal says:
Inspired by this article in BusinessWeek online, I would like your opinion on allowing others to tag your photos.

If the future of Internet content is toward shared personal content, it seems to me that we need to develop standards for tags so that searches will have some selectivity.

However, as several recent threads have suggested, tag standards will not work as words mean different things to different people.

What are we to do?

I am beginning to believe that we must as a...

Nehcoy Siola says:
I´m wondering how important the tags for my photos are.

Important in a sense of attracting people to have a look at them and at my photostream.

How does a general tag like "fruit" or "garden" or "sky" help?

E.g. Searching for "Sky" brings up 1.581.220 photos.
E.g. Searching for "Sky" and "B&W" and "Germany" and "Berlin" brings up 15 photos.

So it looks like that you should have many multilangual...