(i.e. he is complaining that tags are currently often too prominent, look too cluttered, and some users tag too aggressively).
Right, but the point I was trying to make is that the reason why this happens is because you don’t have sufficient engagement from the broader community in this stuff, so when mistakes like these happen (maybe because the people doing the tagging are a small and unrepresentative sample of the LW userbase), they don’t get corrected quickly because there are too few people to do the correcting. Do you disagree with this?
I think it’s messy. In this case, it seems like the problem would have never appeared in the first place if the tagging button had been less available. I agree many other problems would be better addressed by having more people participate in the tagging system.
Right, but the point I was trying to make is that the reason why this happens is because you don’t have sufficient engagement from the broader community in this stuff, so when mistakes like these happen (maybe because the people doing the tagging are a small and unrepresentative sample of the LW userbase), they don’t get corrected quickly because there are too few people to do the correcting. Do you disagree with this?
I think it’s messy. In this case, it seems like the problem would have never appeared in the first place if the tagging button had been less available. I agree many other problems would be better addressed by having more people participate in the tagging system.