You need to encourage use of the community tag. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who uses it. Also, perhaps require at the submitter to apply at least one tag. Uncategorized posts are a little annoying.
Any suggestions on how to encourage the use of a community tag? I thought that once someone has earned the ability to give a badge and suggest community tags, they should receive a notification/email saying "congratulations you can now give a badge and administer community tags" -with a short description of what a badge and a community tag is. My guess is that many users don't even know what a community tag is.
While on the topic of badges, is there anywhere that explains what one needs to do to get a badge. At the moment I have two dots out of eight but I have no idea how I got those or how I get more.
exactly. We need to fix that. For now, next to a post you will see a +#. Click on that and voila! you can add a community tag. When someone has already added one you'll see Δ#. Click it if you don't think the current tag is appropriate and suggest a different one.
Oooh, what does the "+!" next to the top of your post do? Oh god I nearly accidentally gave you a badge for this. No offense, TNG, but I'm going to hold onto that badge for something a little more significant. PS. Thank you for elucidating on the community tag though!
Sometimes I don't post a tag because I can't come up with one word (or even two) that aptly describes what I'm posting, so I see that as leaving it up to the community to figure out what the best tag would be. Have only done this a few times though.