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How about having tags, and then letting the community dynamically decide which ones are standard? I think this would work because the community is fairly observ
by m0th87 17y ago
How about having tags, and then letting the community dynamically decide which ones are standard? I think this would work because the community is fairly observant of the rules. Plus you could shape behavior by suggesting certain tags when the user wants to add a new tag to a submission. On top of covering the use cases you detail, it would:
1) Help with search if it is ever implemented
2) Allow users to quickly disseminate the subject of articles on the front page without ever opening them (especially helpful for ambiguous titles)
3) Maybe in the future allow users to subscribe/unsubscribe to certain tags if the front page starts getting too busy
- pg 17y agoHmm, interesting. The problem though is that these tags are supposed to be private, so there would be no force to make customs converge.
- rms 17y agoI think m0th87 was suggesting general, public tagging, which always sounds like a good idea but is really hard to implement well.
- fragmede 17y agoHave good tags (common, not blacklisted, thresholded) not be private and pre-seed list of tags. Have a karma threshold to see tags? Would talking about an article's tag be verboten in the article's comment, or just deserve a 'meta' tag? I could see an article's comments being a force for custom convergence.