RE: Tags with multiple words?

Henrik Nyh <> wrote:
&gt; On 2/28/08, Larson, Timothy E. < telarson%40west.com">telarsonwest.com
>> Using tag+tag on Del is an intersection, not a union. (Adding tags
>;> refines the search to a smaller result set.) It does what I described
>> earlier, not what you describe here.
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> It is indeed an intersection. What I was trying to say is that if A
> has "incident response xx" and B has "blah incident bleh response&quot;,
>; not just A but also B has the intersection of the tags
> incident&#43;response.

This problem remains even if you allow multi-word tags. For example,
searching for "'incident response'&quot; will still find things tagged
&quot;'incident response' bleh". The only way to get what you want is to tag
them "incident response&quot; and ONLY "incident response&quot; (or a variant like
&quot;incident_response&quot; if you choose) - no other tags allowed. This issue
really doesn't seem to be about single-word vs multi-word tags at all.

Tim
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On 2/28/08, Larson, Timothy E. < telarson%40west.com">telarsonwest.com> wrote:
&gt; Henrik Nyh <> wrote:
&gt; > It is indeed an intersection. What I was trying to say is that if A
> > has "incident response xx" and B has "blah incident bleh response&quot;,
>; > not just A but also B has the intersection of the tags
>; > incident&#43;response.
>
> This problem remains even if you allow multi-word tags. For example,
> searching for "'incident response'&quot; will still find things tagged
&gt; "'incident response' bleh". The only way to get what you want is to tag
> them "incident response&quot; and ONLY "incident response&quot; (or a variant like
>; "incident_response" if you choose) - no other tags allowed. This issue
&gt; really doesn't seem to be about single-word vs multi-word tags at all.

It seems like we're now talking about different things. I opposed the
claim that tagging things "incident response&quot; as two tags would give
you the same expressiveness as if Delicious added support for
multi-word tags. It doesn't, for reasons already given.

The mail I'm replying to now seems to make an orthogonal claim: that
multi-word tags doesn't change the fact that you can't search for
things with only one specific tag and no others. This is true, but
completely unrelated to my point.

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