Joining wordpress.com’s tag community on self-hosted WP
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Hello,
I have long joined wordpress.com, but now want to host my own wordpress blog. Is there a plugin or such that would make me appear on wordpress.com’s tag pages such as:
http://wordpress.com/tag/japanese/
Thanks a lot!
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Absolutely not, and there won’t ever be. Staff are very much against people hosted elsewhere trying to get in on the global tag page action.
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It’s not so much that we don’t want people using it, just that spammers would do their best to get their tags in. They would tag wrongly just to get the traffic, they would use automated tools to post so frequently that we would see few and fewer bloggers here being linked. This would rightly upset everyone here and then we would be asked to close it off because it is actually a good feature. So it’s much easier to just not open it up and go through that pain.
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Could I please add 2 cents although I have mentioned this before.
The tag surfer displays peoples complete postings, these postings are often from another source, eg. The BBC, Reuters etc. The stories can be immensely long.
And can in fact act to bury another person’s hard fought for authouring of a post. Especially when you get two or three long consecutive posts.
Wouldn’t tag Surfer be more effective if the words displayed were limited, eg 500 words, people could then click to go to the web site if they want to read the rest of the article.
The subject of this thread has been against spamming and exploiting Tag surfer.
I mean if there was a post a spammer didn’t like, they would just have to add a few long posts to be rid of it. -
morris108, you might want to start a different thread in the forums. This isn’t about tag surfer. It’s just about allowing non WordPress.com blogs to be show as part of the blogs indexed by the global tagging engine.
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