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I think I'll start tagging words as "sufficiently tagged."

Wait. Would that make them overtagged? Dang....

Also, we can hide tags on word pages, yes? So anything that looks hideously overtagged can go "poof!" with the click of the mouse. :-)

Wow. Mastodon appears to be the most listed herbivorous beastie in Wordie. Or, at any rate, the most listed beastie in Wordie tagged as herbivorous.

Thanks, c_b!

Thanks mollusque--guess I didn't look hard enough. :)

Note that nimravid is "hideously overtagged".

C_b, I meant the earworm page. By the way, tagging isn't anonymous. Overtagged has been used by bilby and plethora.

I don't like this tag at all, personally, but since I think people should be given wide latitude to use tags as they wish, I don't mind if someone wants to use it.

I don't think there's any need to be sorry, Pro. Tag as many times as you want!

Mollusque, are we now tagging tags? Or do you mean the earworm page?

I think 'overtagged' just doesn't make any sense. Something could have 100 tags; that doesn't mean they aren't all useful. Who's to say what the limit is, or even pretend that there is one? What use is it to make a judgment like that?

And since tagging is anonymous, one could (conceivably) tag someone's words with something nasty just for the hell of it. Just sayin'.

Q Why does guttiau have 15 tags, but I can see only 2?

A Because of the way Prolagus uses tags on some of his lists: he adds a bunch of words, then mass-tags the whole list "bread, Italy" or "cheese, Italy, Sardinia". Apparently, words get double, triple, quadruple tags. Sorry about that, send your complaints to the slack bastard!

By the way, earworm will be the tag leader once someone gets around to tagging it as overtagged.

What about ビール, which on its tag pages is said to have 12 total tags, but has only 10 showing? Or guttiau, supposedly having 15 tags, but with only 2 visible.

Whoa. Then tagging it would mean that it was no longer undertagged, but then it's tagged "undertagged," but it's really not because it has the requisite number of tags, but...

*can't parse*

What will you do where a word needs just one more tag to escape being undertagged?

Hey, I have an idea: I'm going to tag every word I find with fewer tags than I think it should have, with "undertagged." That oughtta solve it!

I agree with chained_bear... But in any case, surely by adding this tag you're just exacerbating the problem?

What does this tag mean? Is there some maximum number of tags that a word is allowed (and by whom?) to have?

You may as well tag all the words on about ten or fifteen of my lists with this. Sorting 500 ships' names by how many guns they carried, or about 800 prehistoric animals by the geologic era in which they lived, may not be someone else's cup of tea, but they're there for someone's (in this case my) preferred organization.