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Lobsters has a simple but effective and fairly strongly enforced tag system that makes it far easier to curate your feed than HN. Despite what others have said
by packetlost 3y ago
Lobsters has a simple but effective and fairly strongly enforced tag system that makes it far easier to curate your feed than HN. Despite what others have said here, it is not a ghost town at all, it's intentionally lower noise and they'd like to keep it that way.
- everybodyknows 3y ago> fairly strongly enforced tag system Quite a disciplined policy by the stewards of the website. How does the enforcement work against say, overtagging? Also this: > Inactive tags can no longer be used on new stories. https://lobste.rs/tags https://lobste.rs/tags Roughly 100 tags on the page. I see "news" and "ipv6" marked as no longer active. I'm guessing that "inactive" implies dropping from SQL indexes as an economy measure, while retaining unmodified in the original post's metadata.
- ignaloidas 3y ago> Quite a disciplined policy by the stewards of the website. How does the enforcement work against say, overtagging? Tags are used as negative signal, rather than positive (as in, you filter out tags you don't like, rather than taking the ones you do), so overtagging would kill the submission, and missing tags will be added by others via suggestions (which automatically add the tag after some threshold amount of suggestions).
- kristianp 3y agoThe ghost town link in the readme is gold: https://twitter.com/webshitweekly/status/1399935275057389571 https://twitter.com/webshitweekly/status/1399935275057389571