Posted on May 31, 2016
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I've had multiple posts where an Admin has gone in and changed the tags to reflect what they thought the intent of the post should be. Does this help the community by better focusing questions or is hurting by not allowing members to reach the appropriate audiences.
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CPT Jack Durish
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I appreciate the help getting the tags correct (now I hope I scored some points with the admns)
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SGT Ben Keen
SGT Ben Keen
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We will give you .5 points ;-) lol
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CPT Jack Durish
CPT Jack Durish
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SGT Ben Keen - Thanks. I can use all the help I can get
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MSgt John McGowan
MSgt John McGowan
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CPT Jack Sir You have enough points you could spread some out.
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SGM Erik Marquez
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Edited 8 y ago
We are not changing them to reflect what we think " the intent of the post should be" We are changing them so the thread meets the intent of the rules users agreed to when they signed up.
For those interested in not having an admin edit thier thread tags, please read though the support article http://support.rallypoint.com/customer/en/portal/articles/1495568-how-to-properly-tag-links-and-questions that is there to assist in educating about the system and its use.
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SGM Erik Marquez
SGM Erik Marquez
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CW2 (Join to see) - No doubt there is always an issue of interpretation when it comes to rules. If it were not so, there would be no appellate court, no US Supreme Court.
As I was not the Admin that changed the tags on that thread, so i can not speak to why they were changed..
I can say on the dozens of posts I have changed tags on this month alone.. it was due to clear misunderstanding of how and why the tag system works (or a deliberate intention of not using Tags as intended)
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SSG Carlos Madden
SSG Carlos Madden
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CW2 (Join to see) that's a valid point about the "NCO" and "JBLM" tags. I'll be the first to admit the system isn't perfect but if you have an issue please reach out to more than one admin. To help facilitate this and keep the site as transparent as possible, any member can directly message any admin without needing to be connected to them. We often share information and ideas in order to help keep RP fair, organized and impartial. If there is a need, one admin can always improve on the actions of another, including tags.

The "leadership" tag is one of the more over and misused tag, so much so that we have debated getting rid of it completely. On a military network nearly everything could be about "leadership" and so the discussions in the Leadership appear a bit random. The whole idea behind tags is to avoid this. As those above me have stated, topic tags should closely reflect the subject of a post and not an intended audience, which why many tags are changed.
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Maj John Bell
Maj John Bell
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I made a comment about RP having gender neutralized the pronouns in the "salute them" notification. When I go to the activity list under my profile, The original points for posing the question are still there. I was relatively sure I would get some comment from people I regularly notify. When I use the link in my profile to check that post, I got the same result as hitting the "My Feed" link under the "home" tab. There's trace evidence of my post, but the post itself is gone.

Is it safe to assume that post was scrubbed? I do no not remember anything in the RP terms of use that prohibits pointing out something the RP "powers that be" do. I just pointed it out and did not directly criticize RP. I merely pointed out that my preferred pronouns were "he" and "him." Admittedly a bit of a poke, but a pretty innocuous one.

I have also had posts that were purely humorous in nature, I was not in any way vulgar, nor did I target an RP member. In one case, the tags I used were "political humor and opinion" and "Energy". The link had to do with calls from the left for immediate cessation of the use of fossil fuels on a well-known satire site. My tags were removed, and the replacement tag was "anthropology." There was no content related to anthropology. I did use the image of a caveman to illustrate where an immediate moratorium on fossil fuels would put us. LTC Kevin Broom was the administrator in question. He did notify me. He did not remove the post, but I felt this was his way of limiting the exposure of my post.

SSG Carlos Madden
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SGM Erik Marquez
SGM Erik Marquez
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Maj John Bell - I do see what you are referring to.
Looks like you posted your opinion in the form of a statement in the "answers" forum.
I did not take any admin action on your post, so I can only guess.

Id have to read the post to know for sure, but it appears from what you have said, it may not have been appropriate for the answers forum.
For sure its fits in the user update category, I see no reason you cant repost it as a update
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MCPO Roger Collins
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Hate to admit it, but I don't know crap from Shinola about tags. Therefore they mean nothing to me.
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LTC Stephen C.
LTC Stephen C.
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C'mon, MCPO Roger Collins, tell us how you really feel about this! :)
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