I’m currently working through my own thoughts and vision for tagging.
If and when we end up building a tagging system on LessWrong, the goal will be to distinguish the main types of post people are interested in viewing, and create a limited number of tags that determine this. I think building this will mainly help users who are viewing new content on the frontpage, and that for much more granular sorting of historical content, a wiki is better placed.
I’m pretty sure I disagree with this and object to you making an assertion that makes it sound like the team is definitely decided about what the goal of tagging system will be.
Hm, I think writing this and posting it at 11:35 lead to me phrasing a few things quite unclearly (and several of those sentences don’t even make sense grammatically). Let me patch with some edits right now, maybe more tomorrow.
On the particular thing you mention, never mind the whole team, I myself am pretty unsure that the above is right. The thing I meant to write there was something like “If the above is right, then when we end up building a tagging system on LessWrong, the goal should be” etc. I’m not clear on whether the above is right. I just wanted to write the idea down clearly so it could be discussed and have counterarguments/counterevidence brought up.
I’m currently working through my own thoughts and vision for tagging.
I’m pretty sure I disagree with this and object to you making an assertion that makes it sound like the team is definitely decided about what the goal of tagging system will be.
I’ll write a proper response tomorrow.
Hm, I think writing this and posting it at 11:35 lead to me phrasing a few things quite unclearly (and several of those sentences don’t even make sense grammatically). Let me patch with some edits right now, maybe more tomorrow.
On the particular thing you mention, never mind the whole team, I myself am pretty unsure that the above is right. The thing I meant to write there was something like “If the above is right, then when we end up building a tagging system on LessWrong, the goal should be” etc. I’m not clear on whether the above is right. I just wanted to write the idea down clearly so it could be discussed and have counterarguments/counterevidence brought up.
That clarifies it and makes a lot of sense. Seems my objection rested upon a misunderstanding of your true intention. In short, no worries.
I look forwards to figuring this out together.