The information provided by these tags is not very reliable and I much prefer to just be able to see my own tags. Is there a plan to enable a view where the automatic tags are hidden?
Thank you
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Itās not in plans at the moment. You can only disable the āShow Tagsā option completely. But Iāll add this suggestion to our list and weāll see what we can do in future updates.
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Ok thanks Zoran. Just to reinforce the point regarding how useless the automatic tags are; every single LingQ that I have created (apart from those for which I have created my own tag) has the following automatic tags (some of which are obviously mutually exclusive):
āConguintivo presenteā, āghiacciareā, āioā, āireā, ālei/luiā, āpreposizioneā, āpresenteā, āsciroppareā, āsostantivoā, āverboā.
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I also hope that something will be done about those tags. I have no idea how these āautomaticā tags are created, but they are mostly WRONG! Just like Salica, i am creating my own tags, and I only want to see those.
Also, it would be nice if we can edit tags (for each language separately): have a list somewhere where I can see the tags that I have created, and have the possibility to update that list.
Also, it seems not to be possible to delete all those āautomaticā tags: as soon as I delete the last remaining tag, the whole series of āautomaticā tags will pop up again. Very annoying.
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The automatic tagging in many instances makes the tags meaningless/useless. They are frequently wrong or the connection between the tag and the item is so obscure that it serves no real purpose. Iām finding it difficult enough to get LingQ to work in a way that makes sense, and this is an additional frustration.
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I donāt understand why itās not a no-brainer to disable those automatic tags. I donāt see how they can possibly be useful to even 1% of the user population.
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Agreed. Something should be done about this.
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Ok, I had this idea time ago but I have, in part, changed my mind.
They are sometimes useful, especially when they are correct; and they could definitely be improved.
For example, in German, or any other languages where they have more genders, it would be very useful to have an automatic tag for substantives. Unfortunately, this is not the case at the moment, but they would be useful.
It would be also useful to have automatic tags that would tell me if a word is an adjective, adverb, and so on. Or if the same word could be a verb, and substantive, and so on.
Some of those things exist already but they are not enough. Those automatic tags should be a lot more reliable to give confidence.
The only thing I find useful, at the moment, is to see the root of the verb, the infinitive form, when the conjugation is weird and for some reason it is not possible to quickly search it in the dictionary. It happened to me various times in German.
It would be great if it would be possible to distinguish from automatic tags and personal tags. For example with different colours. And, as usual, to have the option to have only automatic tags for the people that use them.
After few years, Iād say I stopped to think about tags overall. I would probably take them more in consideration if I focused on one language only.
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In this post it says you can turn off auto tagging in reader settings but I canāt find that option anywhere. https://forum.lingq.com/t/what-is-auto-grammar-tagging-on-lingq/7089?u=taeny
How do I turn it off? Itās really frustrating since itās cluttering the search bar with a bunch of random unnecessary tags I have to scroll through until I find mine. Iāve been manually removing all the tags after every lesson but itās a real hassle.
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@taeny Go to Settings > Reader and disable the Show Tags for both blue (new words) and yellow (LingQs) popups.
This is essentially the same response as from you on this thread back in March 2023?
i.e. you are referring above to functionality for turning off all tags, but there is still no ability to turn off automatic tags whilst retaining user created ones?
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@Salica Yes, you can disable tags completely. Auto tags canāt be disabled, there is no an option for that.
When you delete an automatic tag from a word, that word will still show up when you search on that tag, as though the tag you deleted is still attached to the word. A weird bug.
@bobivan Thanks, we will check that.
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I have both disabled but itās still creating new infinitive form tags for every verb.
@taeny We are looking into this, thanks.
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