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Nice! Why aren't the resources tagged "ruby on rails" also tagged "rails" and "RoR"? People will try searches on various tags, not just the first tag you thoug

by natch 13y ago

Nice! Why aren't the resources tagged "ruby on rails" also tagged "rails" and "RoR"? People will try searches on various tags, not just the first tag you thought of. Maybe you allow users to tag the content, but maybe I arrive at the site just wanting to search and find what I searched for.

TallboyOne 13y ago
Thanks natch. I feel it somewhat makes it harder to find things that way because it fragments things too much. It is tricky for some things, but it's kind of like stack overflow.. 90% of the time you're right. For the remaining 10% you can use the regular text search vs tag search.
Shizka 13y ago
Good point, but what ways are there to solve this problem and why solve it? Having 4 different tags for RoR show up under an item is probably not a good idea for a variety of reasons. One of the problems would that some items might be tagged with only 'RoR' and not 'Ruby on Rails' resulting in the user having to aggregate more tags to get a fulfilling search. However the point you make is valid, so it is a problem which should be looked into imo. Maybe an implementation of an underlying thesaurus could solve this? It might however be hard to maintain it. Any other ideas for how to solve this problem?
- natch 13y ago
  Yes an underlying tag thesaurus would be good. Or tag synonyms as leepowers called (I think) the same idea above. Just to state here a metric for what the end goal is, whatever method is used would ideally provide the same or a pretty similar hit list for any searches for different synonyms with the same meaning.
leepowers 13y ago
This is an issue that can be solved with tag synonyms. Similar to what StackOverflow does: http://stackoverflow.com/tags/synonyms http://stackoverflow.com/tags/synonyms On SO "ror" and "rails" are synonyms for "ruby on rails"
- natch 13y ago
  That would be a great solution here imho.

by natch 13y ago

TallboyOne 13y ago

Thanks natch. I feel it somewhat makes it harder to find things that way because it fragments things too much. It is tricky for some things, but it's kind of like stack overflow.. 90% of the time you're right. For the remaining 10% you can use the regular text search vs tag search.

Shizka 13y ago

Good point, but what ways are there to solve this problem and why solve it? Having 4 different tags for RoR show up under an item is probably not a good idea for a variety of reasons. One of the problems would that some items might be tagged with only 'RoR' and not 'Ruby on Rails' resulting in the user having to aggregate more tags to get a fulfilling search. However the point you make is valid, so it is a problem which should be looked into imo. Maybe an implementation of an underlying thesaurus could solve this? It might however be hard to maintain it. Any other ideas for how to solve this problem?

natch 13y ago
Yes an underlying tag thesaurus would be good. Or tag synonyms as leepowers called (I think) the same idea above. Just to state here a metric for what the end goal is, whatever method is used would ideally provide the same or a pretty similar hit list for any searches for different synonyms with the same meaning.

leepowers 13y ago

This is an issue that can be solved with tag synonyms. Similar to what StackOverflow does: http://stackoverflow.com/tags/synonyms http://stackoverflow.com/tags/synonyms On SO "ror" and "rails" are synonyms for "ruby on rails"

natch 13y ago
That would be a great solution here imho.