Reading through some threads here I see references to a heinous crime called 'tagging'. Errr... what is 'tagging', anybody? Jack

No idea.

"Tagging" is another word for painting pictures or graffiti on walls and other peoples garage doors etc.

It's a specialized form of graffiti. Gangs or sub-gangs ("sets") will mark their territory by painting stylized letters or pictures on walls. Some of these images are quite artistic. Google for "graffiti", and most of the pictures you'll find will show some form of tagging.

But what does it mean in reference to these forums? People are saying that someone might get threatened to be banned because they were tagging on the message forums. Is that verbal graffiti? I don't understand what they are talking about either.

'Tagging' is new Renderosity PTB slang for something I don't want to describe because I don't want to be banned just now.

BTW you know you have been tagging if you get the warning from the mods.

Lets see when this thread disappears err... moves.

Well, I did mean regarding posting in the forums. But hey, I've learned something new about graffiti. Jack:-)

So you understand what it is but you can't describe it because then you would disappear? Sounds like some H.P. Lovecraft came up with from the Necronomicon. Or maybe Lewis Carroll. Tea, anyone?

Umm. "You're it"?? Lewis Carroll's photography would have gotten him banned from Rosity. Interesting fellow. I read this theory that Lewis Carroll was Jack the Ripper. His nonsense poetry served as anagramatic revelations of his actions as the murderer. I think it was in the New Yorker. Interesting fellow. Hmm. Umm. I hope this kind of irrelevant remark doesn't count as tagging. Does it? Umm. poof I'm gone....

I thought Jack the Ripper was Prince Edward or Thomas Cream? Or a doctor revenging an ill gotten disease? Or a midwife who did her extracurricular job very poorly. Would you like a biscuit before I go? I don't know if I have the idea or not. poof ?

How can we avoid doing something, if we don't know what it is? Tut tut it looks like rain poof

Tagging on Renderosity would imply (as far as I understand) any thread that speaks poorly of Poser 5 or Curious Labs. Jack

BTW, I'm sure at very least this will qualify us for the "Off Topic" forum. But I hope they tell us what tagging is before we have to go. It's hard to avoid doing something you shouldn't when you don't know whether or not you are doing it until after you've done it.

Well, poof if my message might actually be the tagging which everyone knows about but no one can define precisely. You do not have the idea? Actually, I can't remember whether it was the New Yorker or NPR. One of those. I'll see if I can find it. Really bizarre theory.

I found it.... singsong I know what it is... /singsong Tagging: Baseball; the act of tagging a runner (off foll by out) in Baseball by putting (a runner) out by touching with the ball or hand holding the ball [18th c.: orig unknown] So, it means I think, that anyone caught running through the forums trying to touch base three times or trying to reach the other side of the forum has to avoid the moderators touching them with a ball held in one hand or they're "outta here"... :D Took me ages to find out what the "official" definition was. Cool, I also found out it was gang markings on turf or indentifier graffitti. I wonder what it has to do with forum threads though? Maybe it's just moderator terminology for "having a bad hair day" looks around and wonders how fast he'll have to run to get over the other side before getting caught

Ah. Jack the Ripper, good. Bad mouthing Curious Labs, bad.

Actually I don't mind Judy and Don (I'm not into supermodels), getting to the point of being able to actually use Poser 5 (even done a couple of Firefly renders, hurray), and have relatively nothing to complain about now that it is possible they have found the sniper(s), and it may rain in my drought striken city this weekend.

All is well.

Am I still here?

Pass the sugar, please.

Tagged. Does this mean I'm "It" now? Or all you guys "It"? ;] Remember: If I dissapear after this, ya'll know what happened.

Questor, thank you for the explanation, even if I'm still a little fuzzy on the application. However, it will help me in watching future baseball games. Well, considering my hometown baseball team, maybe not.

Thoughtcrime, "Gilead gets closer"

LOL @ dialyn I don't even have a baseball team here on my rock, and I'm just as confused as you about the application, but I made it right across the forum and back again without meeting one mod with a ball in their hand, so I'm beginning to wonder if I'm wrong. :)

Tagging on Renderosity would imply (as far as I understand) any thread that speaks poorly of Poser 5 or Curious Labs.<<< Ah, dangit, Jack! Ya beat me to it! Oh, well. The truth is universal... >>>SSSSSWOOOOOSSSSSHHHHH!!! POOF!!!<<< casamerica

Well, if anything, this thread was fun to read. LOL Never heard of the term "tagging" before reading this. I'd like to know what it means in these forums too.

Perhaps we could ask a mod, or would that be... POOF!

Attached Link: Merriam-Webster

Main Entry: tag Function: verb Inflected Form(s): tagged; tagging Date: 15th century transitive senses 1 : to provide or mark with or as if with a tag: as a : to supply with an identifying marker or price b : to provide with a name or epithet : LABEL, BRAND c : to put a ticket on (a motor vehicle) for a traffic violation 2 : to attach as an addition : APPEND 3 : to follow closely and persistently 4 : to hold to account; especially : to charge with violating the law 5 : LABEL 2 intransitive senses : to keep close [tagging at their heels -- Corey Ford] - or - Main Entry: tag Function: transitive verb Inflected Form(s): tagged; tagging Date: 1878 1 a : to touch in or as if in a game of tag b : to put out (a runner) in baseball by a touch with the ball or the gloved hand containing the ball 2 : to hit solidly 3 : to choose usually for a special purpose : SELECT 4 : to make a hit or run off (a pitcher) in baseball Taken from the dictionary's mouth. Now, if we could decipher which meaning has been used, we would all be better off. ;0)

Perhaps to follow closely and with persistence? That is, someone who keeps posting the same topic over and over again in a variety of forums/message threads until poof??? I'm guessing. I haven't a clue. I don't think anyone has been caught breaking the speed limit in the forums, and bookmarking threads so you get notified upon comments added seems to be accepted. Any other ideas.....before we all go poof?

According to a OT forum post, Artist3d is a habitual tagger, so we can just wait for him/her to strike again, and than we'll all know what it means.

Maybe we could start up a 12 Step Taggging Detox program? We could always "patch" the "program" to fit the eventual definition... ;0) TA (Taggers Anonymous) SR-1: Defined.

I'm not going to say what I suspect "tagging" means and what it is used for... poof Okay, just kidding. I'm still here. I doubt I could ever do anything that would warrant my being banned. You can bet that if I ever get banned it will be a result of a conspiracy of which I am an innocent victim. bats big Bambi lashes

"Tagging" in this context sounds to me sort of like what "trolling" is on Usenet. If anyone doesn't know, that means posting a deliberately provocative post for no better reason than to upset people. Roughly. Trolls usually don't actually care about the issues, they just want to get a reaction and feel superior or powerful because they actually pushed some buttons. It's pretty lame. I have seen some examples of that sort of thing in the forums during the past couple of weeks, but that's just my opinion. I can't know for sure if those people meant what they said sincerely, but it looked like they just wanted to stir the pot. If "tagging" really means speaking critically of P5 or CL, which I doubt, then there's a free speech problem here which disserves the integrity of the forums. I've been openly critical of some of the evil things people have said about CL employees with absolutely no real clue of what they were talking about, but I wouldn't advocate censoring them unless they made threats or clearly intended to libel for no better reason. Sometimes it's healthy to vent. But still, I doubt if that's what "tagging" is, here. Maybe there's a little too much conspiracy theory regarding the CL/Rosity relationship? :-) And since I'm rambling, in my large USA city, "taggers" are referred to derisively by real grafitti artists and everyone else. Taggers simply squirt their pseudonym indiscriminately, with no consideration of context or the potential value of the defacement, frequently without any calligraphic sense. They tend to be on the younger side of "teenage." They're sort of like "trolls" on Usenet. :-) Maybe all the taggers really want is a hug. (yuck!)

I allways thought tagging here in the forums was to put a mark of some kind. a message that you want to follow.

I think when you mark a thread to follow it that it is called bookmarking. I don't think anyone has gone "poof" over bookmarking...of course, I never looked to see if they were there afterwards or not. Too poofy for me. I've a bus to catch and I need to do my own vanishing act for this day. Night all. Here's a self-inflicted poof.

The term "trolling" has long been in use in these fora. Everybody whose been here for any amount of time should certaily be familiar with it. There are certainly enough complaints about trolls in all the fora. Suddenly, and out of nowhere, we are told that "tagging" is an offense against the TOS (but not mentioned anywhere in the TOS, BTW), but the PTB refuse to even tell us what "tagging" is. It looks more and more and more and more and more with each passing second that "tagging" is code for badmouthing CL in any way/shape/form.

Attached Link: http://casebook.org/suspects/carroll.html

casebook.org is the definitive Ripper site. The link is to the section on Lewis Carroll. No one takes him seriously as a suspect. Nor the prince. Nor the Masons. But why take my word for it? I'm a Mason.

Oh yeah.... Poof ;o)

And still, we do not have the answer. What is tagging in terms of this forum?

Has anyone bothered to actually ask a mod?

If the mods are modding, then they should see this rather long thread, don't you think? That's what I was counting on. Maybe that's too much to expect. I'm sure they are always very busy. You couldn't pay me to moderate a forum, at least I don't think you could. I'd have to observe a day in the life of a mod to know for sure. :o)

Or maybe tagging is putting the little slogan at the end of your message, you know sort of a trademark. Volfin * doing this could be hazardous to.... Poof

Hiram - Yes, a mod has been asked, the mod that started the term in fact, but he's being evasive and not answering. :)

Questor- What? A mod is not answering what should be a simple question? Tell me it isn't so. What is the big mystery that it is taboo to say what means it to be "tagged" or to "tag"? This is just nuts. Such a simple question, why can't it be answered?

Mab: Sorry can't tell you it's not so. It is so. I have no idea what the big mystery is, nor do I know what a "moron factor" is in a thread that results in it's being moved out of here. But they are two new terms Tagging Moron Factor That we must all come to know and understand (somehow) because they're TOS violations that get threads moved or people vanished. Cool huh? You can read all about it. Here. http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=920957 Have fun. You'll be as confused as all the rest of us. :)

I could understand it as another term for Trolling. Seems there have been a lot of really basic questions being asked on here in the last couple of weeks. Maybe the Warez kidz? Wow, paranoia. :)

I haven't read Questor's link yet, but I did just see a thread in which someone posted the word "tagged" as a "bookmark." If that's all it is, there go the fun conspiracy theories. But why would bookmarking be a TOS violation? It doesn't contribute to threads, but it's inoffensive. I have no idea, but if "tagging" is criticism of CL, that might explain why mods would be reluctant to say so explicitly. They don't want to start a censorship scare, knowing that it will escalate and make 'em look poorly. Especially now that people are paying close attention to the sad parting of the waters. Admittedly, this is semi-idle speculation. I just hope it's not "tagging!"

"You couldn't pay me to moderate a forum, " - mabfaireyqueen ***looks, realises that he not only is now modding several forums unpiad, but went from being a paid mod to an unpiad one and slinks off.. *** Damn. My daddy always told me I didn't have enough brains to pour piss out of a boot with directions on the heel - NOW I discover he was correct. ;]

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Oh, gee. We've been teleported. ;] How nice.

I come from australia, and over here (and in New Zealand too I imagine) tagging is something that happens at the bottom of rugby rucks. Its when a player stomps on you while wearing their "tags" (like grass cleats). How this may relate to forum's... beats me.

teleported - wow, right in the middle of posting lol

Cool... At least it's not the hidden depths of obcurity in OT...

Not yet...

When it slid out from under me, that was the first place I checked...