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The problem is that topic nazis will jump all over you (i.e. close your question as off topic) if you dare ask a question that might be server administration ba
by keltex 16y ago
The problem is that topic nazis will jump all over you (i.e. close your question as off topic) if you dare ask a question that might be server administration based rather than a programming question.
- robg 16y agoPerfect example there where "server" + "administration", or heck even "server" alone, in the text is sufficient to classify the question. Add additional terms and classification gets more and more discrete. Tags are necessary for photos. I don't see how text is the same problem at all.
- thwarted 16y agoI somewhat feel the same way about twitter's hashtags. All it does it eat up the limited space already allocated. Why are you not putting words related to the topic in your tweet already?
- bmelton 16y agoI always felt that the hashtags were a good idea, but that everybody was using them wrong. If, for example, my tweet looks like this: "I had a great time posting on Hacker News #hackernews, #great_time" then I am doing it all wrong. I thought the smarter implementation would be to do something more like: "I had a #great_time posting on #hackernews" It doesn't eat up as much space, but the inclusion of the hash allows for content grouping and all the other nonsense it provides. The first time I saw it used in the first way, I was kind of sad for the author, as I believe that the intent was for them to replace words, and the author just didn't get it... but I've seen it misused more than I haven't, so either the world at large is doing it wrong, or I am misunderstanding something.
- eru 16y agoThis works best in (mostly) isolating languages like English. If your grammar forces you to modify words, you need some workarounds. Say, define certain tags as synonyms of each other.