The tag policeman does not like me

This board has an automatic tag-police man, one might say. The tag policeman can stop one from posting things. For, one’s tags are wrong. Working out how to have the correct tags, though, is hard when one faces this sort of thing:

I found that clicking the maximize button, in order to help me see what I was doing, did not work; for, it hid all the tagging stuff.

The following dawned gradually upon me.

  1. One enters tags in the right-hand box.
  2. Which tags one can enter is controlled by the category, i.e., by the left-hand box; not all categories support all tags.
  3. Thus (from 2) some seemingly sensible combinations of category-and-tag are impossible. An example is community support and Linux Mint. Or perhaps the problem there was that the system requires at least two tags and, having chosen community support I could not choose anything other than Linux Mint. Or something. Even trying to itemize the confusion is confusing.

I have tagged this post randomly. For, I could not manage to do any better.

Framework Community Forums - Feedback and Updates Thread Would probably be a good place for this, in order to be seen by those working on the forum setup.

What browser are you using?
It doesn’t block me from selecting further tags, if I first have the Linux Mint tag then switch into the community support category.

~edit~
Though perhaps I’m not supposed to be able to do that! :upside_down_face: From @Morpheus636 reply below

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This sounds like it’s working correctly – you can only select distro tags in the linux subcategories.

  • The community support category is for hardware and windows issues, while linux gets it’s own category.
  • To post in community support, you must select the issue you’re facing and the model you’re facing it on.
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I believe this is the intended behavior.

If you have a Linux issue or question, you should post it in the Linux subcategory and select a distro tag.

For hardware issues, you should post in the Community Support category, choosing your device as the first tag and the general issue (e.g., temperature, not booting) as the second tag.

If you want to create a new thread that’s more of a general discussion (e.g., benchmarks, bag suggestions) rather than an issue, use the main device category and select your device tag.

That’s it. Please let us know if you have any feedback in the feedback thread.

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I am using Firefox.

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Thank you for trying to help.

So there are . . categories (‘the Community Support category’), sub-categories (‘the Linux subcategory’) and tags?

Anything else that I have to say on the matter, I will put in the feedback thread, which MJ1 linked.

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