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I'd like to see tagging, with a page and corresponding RSS feed for each tag. I usually read HN via RSS, so maybe I don't have a pony in this fight (is that the
by TrevorBurnham 16y ago
I'd like to see tagging, with a page and corresponding RSS feed for each tag. I usually read HN via RSS, so maybe I don't have a pony in this fight (is that the expression?), but I suspect most folks who visit the front page are there for things that could plausibly be tagged "news", and those complaining about clutter want to avoid things that would be tagged "humor" or "rant".
I think having non-exclusive, optional tags would be much less of a leap than having to assign each post to a single category. Perhaps all users with karma above a cerrtain threshold could have authority to remove a tag from a post, ensuring that the "news" page would only contain things that are clearly considered to be news. Or there could be a "tagflag" link under each tag.
The biggest problem I'd expect to see with this scheme is that editors would have to add tags to items missing them. But important news items are typically submitted multiple times. So perhaps the tags from multiple submissions could be aggregated.