Poll: Tags, Memories, and LJ Clients

[rsadelle]

I've started relying more on people's tags to find their other fic and not bothering to go look at their memories. There are three reasons for this:

1. So many people don't use memories anymore that looking for them just got to be an exercise in disappointment.
   
2. When I find a piece of good fic via delicious, it's so easy to just click on the tags at the top of the entry to find the author's other, similar fic. (My most favorite tag ever is fic involving eating cake off of sammy; the more general fic involving cake is a close second.)
   
3. LJ changed the profile page, and there's no longer a nice big, red heart to click on to get to people's memories. Sure, there's a link that says "Memories," but it's lumped in with a lot of other equally sized and formatted text.

So this has me thinking about what to do about my LJ. I'd like to start tagging things so other people who might wander by won't be frustrated by my lack of tags the way I'm starting to be frustrated by other people's lack of tags. But there are questions to be asked:

• What about the nearly eight years of my entries that I've memorified? Obviously I'll go back and add tags to the fic entries. Do I go back and tag everything else that was memorified too?
  
• Do I keep adding things to memories or give that up in favor of only tagging them?
  
• Tags clearly serve the triple purpose of categorizing, commenting, and demonstrating cleverness. Do I stick to simple, descriptive tags, or go for more entertaining things?
  
• I've been using an extremely ancient client to post entries (LiveJournal 1.4.6), which comes from a time Before Tags and therefore has no way to add them to an entry. How should I post things now?

The best way to answer questions about using LJ is, of course, with a poll on LJ.

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