Apple Community Discussions - finding the best Tag(s)

Don't bother with tags. If you are posting new question, just pick the first one at random. It really doesn't matter.

The_Knowledge_Seeker wrote:

Perhaps Apple should remove the tags altogether then!

Well, perhaps I spoke too soon. The first tag is pretty much useless. It's just the device. Sometimes people pick the right one, sometimes they don't. There is a default set, but they are certainly out-of-date and wrong for me.

The section "tag" really isn't a tag. It's identifying the specific forum where you want to post. (Perhaps it is implemented internally as tags and then each forum is just a listing of that tag.) But regardless, it's a real can-o-worms. If you pick an obscure tag, then no one is going to see your post. If you pick a too-generic tag (iPhone), then too many people will see your post and you'll get poor, but abundant, answers.

The problem is that Apple runs a very lean ship. You are talking about a major, months-long re-architecture of the site, followed by months of testing, and then months of buggy releases. That's just not going to happen. This is a good as it gets.

I always assumed that “topic” is the subforum to which the question gets posted, as the pre-defined tags match the names of the subforums. Are they independent?