Tags help: explain tags and how does this website work - Help.com

The tag-system doesn’t work very well right now, the most functional part of the site is all the people, who try to help each other figure it all out.

The site is kind of broken at the moment. The idea is that you have tags that describe what you know, and you get notified if a post is tagged with any of those words. However, the notifications for tags are not working for the past week.

The rest of the way the site works is that people post questions, and then other people post replies that try to be helpful (or are rude, then get reported and removed). You get more answers to your questions if you help other people because they see a link to your question under each of your replies on other posts (I don’t have one right now, but look at other posts to see them).

If you click on any of the hyperlinked tags listed under the post, it will direct you to other posts and people with that tag. There may be only one page of search-results listings, but it is some information. Also, mouse-hovering over the tag should tell how many posts it is indexed to.

See also http://help.com/tags