As I already said, from what I read in regards to the randomness:

So if having random tags is really that important, it's still going to be there. No one is said they'll be done away with. The tiny little burst of pleasure you get when you first see it will still be around. It may even mean more since you got something when you didn't request it, didn't plan to request, or what have you.

As much as i would love purple text over < there i like the idea of the surprise!

I totally get what you are saying when you say that most people who are voint for #1 are people who already have tags and the such. (Me being one of those people ) But I didnt have to wait three years to get a tag or the font color. I havent even been on three years yet! I got my first tag in a FC. I requested it there. So if you really want a tag that badly, you just have to go be active in a fan club and ask for one in a thread. I know for a fact that the Twins Fan Club has a request thread for tags.

I know its not the same as getting one of your choice (Because you do after all have to have the request FC related) But you are still able to request a tag.

The ones that Admin/Mods give out are special. They brighten up your day because you know you earned it. But if there is a thread open that ables others to just request a tag, thats no fun. That would be like working night and day for a baseball trophy (for instance) and in the end, another kid just asks for a trpphy and they are given on. It hurts the person who has worked so hard to get it when another person can just ask for one.

I dont mean to hurt anybodys feelings, but I dont see that requesting for a tag is fair. I mean you can already requesting in Fan clubs...

But this is just my opinion...

The request thing would be nice. While I like the random tags and such, certain "fun" tags, like my Canna one, for example, I'm going to want to change once the Canna ship has graduated Hogwarts and stuff like that

I also see that most of the people who voted for number one are the ones that already have tags, and I mean I think that is a little unfair to the rest of us who put in work and didn't get any tags because we didn't spend time in the TP or whatever.

I mean like Mad Eye said there are some members that log on to just post in the news threads or to post in their fan fic or their RP. Do they put in less work than you do? No I don't think so. But they sometimes go under the radar sometimes. I went 5 years before I got a tag and I requested it in a fan club.

Did it make that tag any less special for me? Nope! Did it put a smile on my face to see if when I logged in. You bet!

The tag is special to the person getting it. Not the people looking at it.

I mean why what is the point in worrying so much about how the other guy got their tag? Aren't we all here to have fun?

Tags are fun and awesome regardless of how its gotten!

Taxus the Wise Tree strikes again. :tree:

Yes, I enjoy the mystery and/or fun of random tags. And also, my fear of Diddykins has prompted me to vote.

I like things the way they are, and I like this SS Democracy even more!

I gots no tag but I still voted for the surprise.. blah blah yes I know I've been on SS for like three years now and still haven't gotten a tag but Id rather wait to see if im singled out for something rather than request one. Bleh.

Tags seem super special and I figure that I can wait. Where as the colour bit goes, I'd love some colour.

Woot! words of wisdom right there *applauds*

I like the idea of random tags. Trust me once you GET that random tag, your day just gets 290839029382 times better. SERIOUSLY. Patience is a virtue when it comes to tags but I do think we should give out more random tags to people.

Not everybody necessarily gets there tags from the TP. I dont hang out at the TP. Ive been in there, but Im rarely seen in there. Yet, I have two tags. A lot of people dont hang out in the TP and still have multiply tags. So its not just the TP that give people their tags.

ANd ok I see where you are coming from for the people who are only coming on for FF and news. But if that is the case, what does it matter if they have a tag? Just like you said, they are here for FFs and news. Im not saying they dont care that they dont have a tag, but I feel they dont worry about trying to get a tag, because they are just here for the enjoyment of reading a FF or getting some juicy details on whether the HBP trailer is out yet

It doesnt take 5 years to get a tag. Like I said, it didnt even take me a year to get one of mine. And you did get a tag too when you asked for one in the FCs. Im not asking to stop the request threads in FCs. Im all for them! It give people a chance to get a tag who are not random and attention getters.

A tag is special to everyone. If everybody has a tag, it makes it less special. Look at siggies for example. Do you see them as something you earned? No. Because you only merely requested it. If everybody can request for a tag, they will be as special as a siggie.

Im in no way saying siggies are bad! I mean I love changing my siggie like every other week! But I was just comparing the thrill of having it. You dont get a thrill of getting your siggie, cause you already know what you are going to see.

Im in no way putting you on the spot Tisha
Im just trying to prove a point

perhaps a thread where people can nominate others for tags?

I think random tags are good but if someone was nominated then they could still be surprised and it would mean less people slip under the radar.....

I guess I'm more for earning this sort of stuff.

GAH! Someone called me by my real name!

Everyone gets a license if they apply for one. Does it make it any less special when you turn 16 and you go to take that picture! Nope it doesn't!

Why should a tag be something you earn anyways? I know a good friend of mine got a tag yesterday simply because she asked for it. And it made her day, and she is still talking about it!

I think that is the reaction that admins are looking for!

Ohhh I really do like this idea
That is totally diffrent than yourself asking for a tag.
That still gives off the element of suprise

Awesome idea

I in no way ment to offend you by saying your real name
If you want I will edit my post, scratching it out.

Now, I see what you are saying by it sounds cliquey, I guess. But both my tags had nothing to do with being in a "secret club the mods have." I got mine for wining something and for being a Mod in a certain area of the site.

I for one dont have any "fun" tags. And what you are saying is not true at all. Because if it were true I would have a lot. I know many of the Mods here on SS and that did not help me gain a "fun" tag. So, Im sorry, I will have to disagree with you. And I know people here who dont know any of the Mods, yet have one or two tags.

Im sorry Anna but Im going to use you for an example

Take MuggleBornWitch3 for instance. She didnt know annnny of the Mods before she got her "Hermione's Twin" tag. She got it because her RPG character acted so much like Hermione She was still a newbie and just worked hard as new person to the site. She earned her tag. She wasnt in any "secret club with the Mods."

I want to use your drivers license pun. You say everyone gets a license if they apply for one. Well that is not all the way true. You have to pass a test. And I have many friends who have failed the test and had to take a 2nd or even a 3rd time before they got the license.

Which brings me to say that getting a license is all together waaaaaaay special. Trust me if all 16 year olds had to do to get a license was to apply for one I would have mine a loooooong time ago
*Ish a car freak*

Im totatlly gone off topic

Anyways, the reason why people want #1 is because people like to be suprised and knowing that they earned it. Now you ask why people have to earn it. Well, this is my opinion but people like to be able to earn things. Like taking out the trash to earn an allowance. Or studying like crazy to get an A in the class. Or practcing everyday to make the varsity team. Its just something that come natrual to people.

Tags are just allowances, or that A in the class, or knowledge that you are the best on the team. Its something that members should want to earn. It gives the new members excitment in want to become an active member. It sets in a way a goal. And that is why it makes earning a tag even more fun.

EXACTLY Steph! I applaud you xD Requesting a tag is just an easy way out, you WILL get your tag if you work for it, and if you really really want it. You don't need to be friends with mods! I got my tags for working in the SBFC, and as a retirement gift, I asked Chris to give me a tag. The Headz&Tailz was a wonderful gift from Taylor when she was still a member, in no way able to GIVE me that tag, and there was nothing quite like going online and seeing it there.

Requesting a tag is so easy, when tags should be earned with patience and work at it. I do agree with Sierra, maybe we should give them out more often, or NicoT, a thread to suggest tags for friends, but not to request them for ourselves. I think it just takes all the magic from them.

No you didn't offend me! Just didn't think anyone took the time to find out my real name!

But I guess this boils down to that old age battle between the haves and have nots.

The haves want to keep the status quo that same. I mean you guys put in work for your tags or whatever what right do the newbies or what have you got to be requesting tags. I mean can't they get a tag the same way you did. It won't be special if just anyone gets a tag. I mean that will take away the exclusivity of the tags if everyone got one.

I don't know I guess I just always champion for the have nots and the underdogs.

^ I don't know what you said, I'm sorry

Either way, there's always more options
- NicoT's idea of a thread to suggest tags for other members is wonderfully non-selfish and it contributes to earning a tag, through friendship <3

- Maybe it can also be suggested that mods look in their forums for someone they think deserves a tag that month, maybe?

- Or, for contests, more tag prizes, something you worked for and earned and you can proudly show off. Not to mention, it will encourage a lot more members to take part in SS activities and competitions

- The 2nd option in this very thread is good too. You request a tag, but you earned it by staying active on SS and sticking with it

There's a billion ways to make this fair, and still contain the magic of receiving a tag and the wish to request your own tag so no one will feel left out, tis a matter of finding a compromise to fit everyone

Well I like to know the name of the person I am debating with

We did put in work for our tags. I mean look at Niky
Everybody knows that her and taliz are like attached at the hip (on here AND the real world ) (this made me crack up like crazy xDDD) But it took her almost two years to get her "Headz&Tailz<3" tag. So she didnt just get it because she wanted it. She earned it.

Do you see where we are coming from when we want to earn our tags now?

And Niky I love your ideas! If NicoT's idea was an option on the poll I would of voted for it no doubt!

Its unselfish AND it still brings the element of suprise. I also love the competion idea! It makes members want to be active, and that is all SS wants right?

I would just like to say that I voted for the first one. True, I have two tags, but I don't have my charries names and such colored. My K.O. one I asked for because I was very involved in the F&G FC, but the second tag was a total surprise. I literally talked about that tag for the next few days because I was so excited about it(Steph should remember that). I didn't even think I deserved that second tag because I wasn't as involved as other people, but I was still soooo excited. The element of surprise is wonderful and it makes you feel really good about yourself

NicoT, that was an excellent idea. If it had been a poll option, I would have voted for it

I'm kinda split as to what should happen.

I completely understand that earning the tags is a cool way to go about it, but I do think it is hard for people who don't hang around the popular places (TP threads etc). It still amazes me how high the post count on people's profiles are. I've been on here for a while now, but I still have the task of reaching over 1000 ahead of me. I just never really cottoned on to what the TP threads are about so not really dabbled in there, and as much as I try to get into the school RP each term, I never really embrace and get to know people through it. So I suppose getting to express yourself and therefore "earning" a tag won't be easy for some people who desperately want one.

I suppose I am for option 1, but I just hope that they will make it easier for members who aren't as active (looking at post counts) to get one.

Ive voted for option two. Not just because i myself havnt got a tag, but also because sometimes when i see , for example sombody with 4,000 posts who doesnt have a tag , then someone with 1,000 that does i think that its unfair

What Tomasina Riddle said about it having like a cliquey feel to it is true from my point of view. I mean obviously the mod and admin dont set out for it to be this way, but for someone who doesnt really know anyone that well on here other than one or two people, thats what it feels like to me

Oh Conner you aren't just a pretty face *huggles*

this is a good idea....otherwise i'm more on the option 1.

It couldn't be something we had open all the time, but maybe for a special occasion/event/something. We've done things like this with siggies before for Valentine's Day. Remember? hehe So, perhaps, instead of a siggy exchange, we could roll out a "give a tag, get a tag". Hm.

1st question: We edit post bit colors in the same place we edit tags. They just go hand in hand (like, if I'm going to go in a edit a tag, I might as well as edit the post bit kind of thing).

2nd question: Not unless we allowed everyone to edit their own usertitles as well (tags). Which would defeat the purpose of all of this, huh? haha

2a. We're looking into this now, Kris thinks she MIGHT be able to do this. Maybe. No promises.

3rd question: We'll see. Perhaps.

*groan* Again, if I'm going to go in just to change colors.. I might as well as be changing the whole thing. Changing colors, and only colors, would (for me - let me share my opinion since yall are all sharing yours) be like scraping dry food from a restaurant's plate with a fork. You know that awful, teeth-hurting sound? I'd feel like the maid, changing your socks or something. The thing about tags, for me, is just how HAPPY they make you all. haha Changing the color of your tag upon your request, sure, makes you happy, but is more like house cleaning than a surprise visit. (I shouldn't make metaphors in the mornings..)

I'm not saying we won't consider this, I'm just saying that if we opened up just color changing, my teeth would hurt and I'd develop a twitch.

Not really "winning". I'm currently reading the poll as 45 for "Change" and 46 for "No Change". It's a pretty close race.

And I do agree, that the admins (only admins can give out tags/post bits) should give out "more" -- it's a matter of finding the time. =/ I can assure you that I get no thrill like the thrill of sneaking into a thread and giving out a tag or two. But, the admins of this site are very busy people. We do try though, and I hope you all know that.


That is certainly the reaction we look for.

I feel like I need to defend our TP tags. I'll admit that that is where most of my tags go out to. It's just easier. We want tags to be personal (yet random) to the member and that's a really good place to go and find something out about a person and get a random look at the members, too. The tags that come out of there are usually hilarious and definitely dead entertaining getting to see the members react to the new tags. I'm telling you, being the secret tag giver and getting that "OMGLOOKITNEWTAG" is fun like no other. PLUS - in the TP we can stalk the reaction...

But, haha, just the other day I had admin go, "we give tags in the TP??" -- so not all of us are hanging in there. (I go to WWW sometimes too! and definitely the School RPG.)

I hate hate hate hate (x 9753453500) that you feel that way. And, it's truly not true. I'm much much more likely to give out tags to people I don't know because I don't like people to know I gave it to them. If you know me, then you're more likely to know.. it was me. If that makes sense. I assure that the admins of this site deem you all worthy (unless you're a naughty rule breaker!!).




I'm enjoying all your opinions. I can remember the absolute thrill of getting my first tag (from Kevin! I told a joke to Kris and Emma in the TP and neither of them got it, so I got a big blue "Master Joke Teller" as a surprise haha). But, if I'm being real, I KNOW the admins aren't getting out to everyone that deserves a tag. This is a hard choice. =/

I know what you mean Kelvin. I loved it when I got my Pants Man one. I love the spontaneity of them. Making them optional would ruin the fun.

OMG - I dodn't mean to gripe at the TPs. I understand that this is really the place where you do express yourself andyou get more of a sense of who someone is, so understandably that is where you can base a lot of the decisions on. It's just the TP and other threads, I never really understood, so never been in there. I suppose the other ways aren't really broadcast around, about how you can earn one, so people like me and others, who don't really know a lot of people on the site and participate in those threads, it's just a bit more difficult.

Didn't mean to offend anyone

*hugs your head off* I'm not offended. I totally understand where you're coming from. But, you should go try the TP out! I made so many buds in there. There's nothing really to get about it - it's just a neutral bit of SS ground to have fun in and not worry so much about being on topic or 'official'. Just fun. (and you might get a random taaaaag OooOoo hehe )