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In this specific case, the tagging works out a lot like "sections" anyhow - I do believe that most of the questions are language-specific, and that if you go br
by kaens 18y ago
In this specific case, the tagging works out a lot like "sections" anyhow - I do believe that most of the questions are language-specific, and that if you go browse the tags, most of the ones with a lot of questions are language tags.
The tags-as-sections thing breaks down when you get a little more abstract than "x language", as the tags used will be ambiguous (people can retag stuff though, so that's something of a moderation system).
- calvin 18y agoThe difficulty comes in having to browse through the hundred popular tags to find one specific language tag where you want to ask a question or provide help to people. Granted, it's not that hard to do, but it's not optimal from a usability perspective. For instance, PHP wasn't listed in the popular tags even though it's one of the top ten most popular programming languages (http://www.langpop.com/ http://www.langpop.com/). To find this tag, I had to click Tags, search for PHP, and click PHP.
- kaens 18y agoThat is true, although for asking questions you can just tag it as the language. Php probably wasn't listed in the popular tags due partially to the windows/.NET tendency of the site, and the tendency of the people participating in the beta to be the type that doesn't like php.