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While I do like tags for myself, they are also inherently problematic with a group. I tag a photo of my friend "Chardo" (his nickname). Friend #2 tags another p
by evanhamilton 14y ago
While I do like tags for myself, they are also inherently problematic with a group. I tag a photo of my friend "Chardo" (his nickname). Friend #2 tags another photo of him "Richard" (his real name). Now viewing all items tagged "Richard" won't show all the photos of Richard. (Replace human names with names of places, descriptions ["bbq" vs "tom's party"], etc)
Do you have any plans for how to address this?
- maxerickson 14y agoThere's not really any need to address it specially. Tags only get added to the extent that users care, so mismatches are a problem of abundance, and to the extent tags are meaningful/accurate, they facilitate editing to personal preference. I'm sure that successful file managers will also have some degree of fuzzy matching. But tags are still useful, even if we never realize the RDF dream of a perfect global ontology.
- secabeen 14y agoDo they, though? I'm not very good at remembering which tags I use, and once you have hundreds of documents sharing a single tag, if you mis-tag a new file, you may never find it again. Folders make using previous organizational decisions easier than creating a new organization. Incentivizing that behavior is a net win.
- maxerickson 14y agoDo what what? I'm not all gaga over tags, keeping 'primary organizational tags' around makes lots of sense to me. We can even keep on calling them folders. My point is that you really have to construct a silly, user-hostile system for a tagging capability to actually make things worse than no tagging.