Tagging maps in Colonial Space

[Asbestos]

How about a set of pre-set hashtags with a button on each hashtag that automatically places that tag in the description that authors can use? And if they want to make a series or something they can apply for it in a forum thread.

[Annonymus]

What if a mapmaker doesn't have a forum account?
Also that would be a REALLY long list...

[tornado]

True and that's WITHOUT the trolls adding things

[burguertime]

I like the idea of the community being able to add and vote tags on maps. The most upvoted tags would become part of the search parameters for the maps.

[tornado]

However trolls could up vote #series and suchlike so tthe only options would be stuff like #planetfall and suchlike

[Clean0nion]

How about just a thing that the uploader can see when they upload a map?
You get the boxes for username, email, description, then there's a load of buttons in a GUI thing that when clicked, add tags. Things like #Spores, #Digitalis and so on. And all this does is add that tag to the end of your description. Which means you can still freely add custom tags. And this also encourages people who normally don't tag to tag, and so on.

[tornado]

Hhhhmmm that is actually a rely good idea