Nerdaphernalia » the Internet http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia "It's All Geek To Me" Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:51:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Tags vs. Categories http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia/2008/03/tags-vs-categories/ http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia/2008/03/tags-vs-categories/#comments Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:26:24 +0000 Stephen R http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia/2008/03/tags-vs-categories/ A question that comes up in blogging circles from time to time is what the difference is between Comments and Tags. Most blogging software allows you to mark posts with both, and the distinction is often times not clear.

I like to think of it as like walking into a supermarket. Categories are the big signs over the aisles, and tags are the contents labels on the products. Thus: Categories = broad sweeps; Tags = details.

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So I checked out the author link. Not totally spammy, really. The guy has some legitimate articles about blogging on there (assuming he didn’t scrape them from other sites). Then, three posts down, I see this post:

Comment Spamming? Really? Says Who?
December 7th, 2007 · No Comments

Recently, I have been reading about comment spamming. You know, where you go around various blogs and leave your comment just to get a link. And I don’t agree that it doesn’t work[....]

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Hmmmm. You backlink your blog to my site, and lead me right to a post about how you think spamming people’s comments is a good idea.

D00d, that’s got “Akismet submission” written all over it. Seeya.

Moron.

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