why is there a 16 character limit on tag length

[David Quigley]

Why is there a 16 character limit on tag length? This seems arbitrary
and too small for some reasonable tags; I tried to retag a genetics
question from "ld" to "linkage-disequilibrium" and was informed "Tag
'linkage-disequlibrium' is too long, use no more than 16 characters".
Did I do it wrong?

[Istvan Albert]

The reason for it to be limited length is that it should fit into
various layouts. A longer tag may push words around and make some
pages more difficult to read, for example this:

http://www.biostars.org/tag/list/

That being said perhaps 16 characters is too short. That number was
picked in a spur of the moment as the implementation progressed, it
seemed that up to that point the vast majority of the tags were
shorter than that.

It is easy to make it longer and I will raise that in the next update.

best,

Istvan

[Radhouane Aniba]

Hello guys,

I was checking my website rank on google when I found a blog post I wrote two days ago on your website. Here is the link http://www.biostars.org/post/show/44523/chip-seq-data-analysis-tutorial/

I just wanted you to know that it was not me trying to spam your website, and btw, is it normal to have people ids like 131311516151511 ??

I saw posts by this user and it seems like a bot crawling the web for links. I got somemessage removed by biostar before because you mentionned it was like spamming and now you are just cutting pasting content from other websites which I find wired.

Ayway, it was just to say it was notme spamming you

Cheers

Rad

[Istvan Albert]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Radhouane Aniba <ara...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was checking my website rank on google when I found a blog post I wrote two days ago on your website. Here is the link http://www.biostars.org/post/show/44523/chip-seq-data-analysis-tutorial/
>
> I just wanted you to know that it was not me trying to spam your website, and btw, is it normal to have people ids like 131311516151511 ??

The id is extracted from the email/openid.

I saw the post but I would not categorize that as spam. It is
classified as a tutorial, it does not replicate the original post, it
is a summary and a link to it and it seems that it wil send traffic to
the other site so it will be beneficial to them as well.

If it is automated (I doubt that) it does a good job so far ;-)

best,

Istvan

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Istvan Albert
Associate Professor, Bioinformatics
Pennsylvania State University
http://www.personal.psu.edu/iua1/