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You could allow for community tagging and upvote/downvote on tags, which would reduce the moderation requirement (hopefully).
by TheGeminon 4y ago
You could allow for community tagging and upvote/downvote on tags, which would reduce the moderation requirement (hopefully).
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- klibertp 4y agoI think I've seen such a system work well in a few instances, but it needs to both incentivize good tagging and disincentivize mis-tagging. The latter needs to be something that actually hurts users, makes them feel the real pain as a consequence of mis-tagging. I'm not sure how to generalize that from the examples I have in mind, which are all... porn drawings sites. Imagine being into a specific fetish, enjoying yourself clicking through new pics, only to get that one mis-tagged pic that should have been tagged with dirty-old-men but wasn't...
- egberts1 4y agoLike Slashdot.Org?
- sph 4y agoThat would make moderation even harder. The set of tags needs to be hard coded, and perhaps giving some tagging privileges to high karma users. (I have decently high karma, so I might be biased.) Upvoting/downvoting tags would encourage memeing and create even more spam. Steam has community tags w/ voting, and sometimes you find very hard games tagged with "Relaxing".