Yesterday, I talked about some even-less-frequently-used-tags. Today, we’ll talk about some sparsely-sporadic-tags[1].

Note that many of these alternate tags could be expressed with the #hashtag, but that is more ambiguous, and requires more reading in on the part of the user.

=tags are for when you’re trying to make an equivalence that people might not normally think. Example:

“So, yesterday, I ate an apple” =orange

or, more humourously:

“So, yesterday, I ate an apple” =horse

+tags are for when you want to add an idea to a post. Example:

“So, yesterday, I ate an apple” +alsotoday

/tags or ‘/slashtags[2]’ are for when you have an alternate word that might also fit. Sometimes this is actually what happened, sometimes humourous. A humorous example:

“So, yesterday, I rode a horse.” /goat

An ‘actually what happened’ example:

“So, yesterday, I rode a horse.” /merrygoround

\tags or \backslashtags are for subdivisons within a concept. Example:

“So, yesterday, I rode a horse.” \goldendelicious

|pipetags may be my favourite. These show how you ‘pipe’ a concept through another one, giving it a whole new meaning. Example:

“So, yesterday, I ate an apple.” |pie

[1]Next up are ‘sparsely-sporadically-scanty-tags’.

[2]Possibly the worst children’s game ever invented.