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I'd welcome tags but they'd have to be heavily moderated. Over at Lobsters people commonly use the wrong tag (in purpose or not), and the site has far less user

I'd welcome tags but they'd have to be heavily moderated. Over at Lobsters people commonly use the wrong tag (in purpose or not), and the site has far less users.

sluggg 9y ago
I may be missing a joke, but what is Lobster's people?
- Klathmon 9y ago
  https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/
- angersock 9y ago
  A much smaller, more dev-oriented site than here. It's the OpenBSD to HN's Linux--more selective, more conservative, not being overrun by startup propaganda, politics, news, ads, and other pathologies of sites like this.
  - buckbova 9y ago
    Looks great actually. For the same reason I leave every community (namely digg and reddit), I'll have to leave this one. Far too much politics and I get sucked right in. I find myself reading and commenting on stuff that's a complete waste of time and energy. It's great that HN added "hide" at least. Nice way to quickly remove these politically motivated articles. Does anyone know how to delete my account here? edit: Just requested an account over at lobsters, but'll just lurk if I'm denied.
- mikestew 9y ago
  but what is Lobster's people? The people I keep forgetting to beg for an invitation. The punchline to that joke is that lobsters is a read-only-unless-invited board similar to HN. Many of the topics discussed on both boards often parallel each other, so a comparison should usually be valid.
pmoriarty 9y ago
To counter that example, Reddit effectively has tags (by splitting the site in to sub-reddits). There's virtually no restriction on the tags (or sub-reddits) you can create, and Reddit is far more popular than HN. I've heard people argue against tags on HN by saying they don't want HN to become another Reddit, but HN differentiates itself from Reddit in all sorts of other ways, like community and norms. I don't think HN would lose anything by having tags, and if someone wanted to use "HN Classic", as it were, they could just ignore the tags.
- seanwilson 9y ago
  The best subreddits have good moderators though. For the same thing, you'd need knowledgable and strict moderators to make the tags accurate.
Harkins 9y ago
Lobsters has a 'suggest' link for corrections on every post, and the moderation log linked from every footer shows tagings are corrected daily.
justboxing 9y ago
> and the site has far less users It probably has less users because it's a gated-community. From their signup page: > Not a user yet? Signup is by invitation only to combat spam and increase accountability
- sotojuan 9y ago
  My point was that the tag system is misused even in a small community. Imagine how much it'd be misused in HN.
  - justboxing 9y ago
    Agreed. Didn't read your comment that way. My bad.

I'd welcome tags but they'd have to be heavily moderated. Over at Lobsters people commonly use the wrong tag (in purpose or not), and the site has far less users.

sluggg 9y ago

I may be missing a joke, but what is Lobster's people?

Klathmon 9y ago
https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/
angersock 9y ago
A much smaller, more dev-oriented site than here. It's the OpenBSD to HN's Linux--more selective, more conservative, not being overrun by startup propaganda, politics, news, ads, and other pathologies of sites like this.
- buckbova 9y ago
  Looks great actually. For the same reason I leave every community (namely digg and reddit), I'll have to leave this one. Far too much politics and I get sucked right in. I find myself reading and commenting on stuff that's a complete waste of time and energy. It's great that HN added "hide" at least. Nice way to quickly remove these politically motivated articles. Does anyone know how to delete my account here? edit: Just requested an account over at lobsters, but'll just lurk if I'm denied.
mikestew 9y ago
but what is Lobster's people? The people I keep forgetting to beg for an invitation. The punchline to that joke is that lobsters is a read-only-unless-invited board similar to HN. Many of the topics discussed on both boards often parallel each other, so a comparison should usually be valid.

pmoriarty 9y ago

To counter that example, Reddit effectively has tags (by splitting the site in to sub-reddits). There's virtually no restriction on the tags (or sub-reddits) you can create, and Reddit is far more popular than HN. I've heard people argue against tags on HN by saying they don't want HN to become another Reddit, but HN differentiates itself from Reddit in all sorts of other ways, like community and norms. I don't think HN would lose anything by having tags, and if someone wanted to use "HN Classic", as it were, they could just ignore the tags.

seanwilson 9y ago
The best subreddits have good moderators though. For the same thing, you'd need knowledgable and strict moderators to make the tags accurate.

Harkins 9y ago

Lobsters has a 'suggest' link for corrections on every post, and the moderation log linked from every footer shows tagings are corrected daily.

justboxing 9y ago

> and the site has far less users It probably has less users because it's a gated-community. From their signup page: > Not a user yet? Signup is by invitation only to combat spam and increase accountability

sotojuan 9y ago
My point was that the tag system is misused even in a small community. Imagine how much it'd be misused in HN.
- justboxing 9y ago
  Agreed. Didn't read your comment that way. My bad.