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Usually I'm quite capable of mentally striking out double negatives until I'm left with what the sentence actually says, but this one has me foxed: I don't think it's written in English.
It comes from a leaflet about Isaac's Tea Trail, which otherwise looks like a very pleasant walk, loosely attached to an interesting historical figure.

Tagging

I'm happy with my shiny new(ish) LiveJournal; and most of the enhancements and upgrades on offer don't tempt me at all. Get a paid account and create a poll: I don't think so. New, improved, more pretty: I've opted for one of the simplest layouts, and don't need more pretty. Tags, though, sounded like a fun thing.
( A digression )

I was surprised to find that the comments on tagging that were turning up on my flist were all negative, and dived cheerfully into a couple of conversations, asking why and saying that I liked this new feature. And I do, but I had better admit, with apologies, that I have not tested it all that thoroughly - as will appear...

janni's post on this subject is friends locked, so I won't link to it: what it showed me was that some people were using the Memories function to do what I was hoping tagging would achieve for me. Indeed, we seemed to divide between those who hadn't realised that you could add other people's posts to your Memories, and those to whom it had never occurred to use the feature on their own posts.

Another theme both here and in comments on a post from profane_stencil is a dislike of seeing the tags appear at the head of an entry. sekhmets_song puts it best:

I like to analyze things myself, decide what they mean to me. There are a couple of lj tag styles that put the tags at the very top; that's like telling me, up front, what I am supposed to get out of the entry.

Now you point that out, it's not an effect I want either as a reader or as a writer. More research needed here, then: can I find a style that will either hide the tags or at least put them at the end of each entry? Until then, I promise a) only to tag entries which I might at some stage want to view thematically and b) to keep my tags as cryptic as I can.

Does that imply that I am, after all, in the market for a new style? I fear it may. Because despite my loud enthusiasm for tagging (and my early steps in tagging my posts), I had not yet tried using the tags to find related entries: and when I did, I got the message "Sorry, tag filtering is not supported within S1 styles." What I have here is Write-Only Tagging. To move on from here, I have to re-decorate my LJ. And that is not going to happen in a hurry.

I continue to like the idea of tagging: but that statement is now qualified by a much stronger awareness that so far it is just an idea.