Editing Slashdot (section)

==Features==
{{expand section|date=July 2021}}

===Tags===
Slashdot uses a system of "tags" where users can categorize a story to group them together and sorting them. Tags are written in all lowercase, with no spaces, and limited to 64 characters. For example, articles could be tagged as being about "security" or "mozilla". Some articles are tagged with longer tags, such as "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" (expressing the perception of catastrophic risk), "suddenoutbreakofcommonsense" (used when the community feels that the subject has finally figured out something obvious), "correlationnotcausation" (used when scientific articles lack direct evidence; see [[correlation does not imply causation]]), or "getyourasstomars" (commonly seen in articles about [[Mars]] or [[space exploration]]).<ref name="tags">{{cite web|url=http://slashdot.org/faq/tags.shtml|title=Slashdot F.A.Q.: Tags|last=Malda|first=Rob|date=April 29, 2009|publisher=Slashdot|access-date=January 7, 2010|display-authors=etal|archive-date=June 13, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613002800/http://slashdot.org/faq/tags.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book
 |title=Web 2.0 Architectures
 |page=61
 |first1=James |last1=Governor|first2=Duane |last2=Nickull|first3=Dion |last3=Hinchcliffe
 |year=2009
 |publisher=[[O'Reilly Books]]
 |isbn=978-0-596-51443-3
 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gmFHsQ6oEtYC&pg=PA61
}}</ref>

Slashdot has discontinued the use of tags, with all tags now saying 'story.'