If you really found tags all that valuable, you could start doing them inside comments.
Preliminary report: this isn’t going to work, not without drastic contortions in the choice of tags (which IMO kills the effectiveness of the tactic). For instance, from my first set of 30 I tagged a number with the tag “personal”, predictions which only concern one user (or two acquainted with each other) and that I don’t want to see because I can’t effectively assess them. The Google query including “personal” returns close to 30 spurious results: for instance those containing “personal computer” or “personal transportation”. (A temporary workaround is to include the term “tags” in the query, but this will cease to work once a greater fraction of predictions have been tagged.)
I doubt you will adopt my suggestion
You are correct about the likely outcome, but I think I’ve just proven your model of the underlying reasons wrong: I won’t do it because it won’t work, not because I lack the conscientiousness to do so, or because I’m too selfish to take on an effort that will benefit all users.
The Google query including “personal” returns close to 30 spurious results: for instance those containing “personal computer” or “personal transportation”.
JoshuaZ has (example) been adding brackets to the tags, such as [economics]. You don’t mention forcing Google to include the brackets, so it’s not surprising it includes those extra results.
Hm, you’re right. I did some searches on this, and apparently brackets are one of the special characters specifically excluded by Google (along with spam-licious ‘@’ and others). How unfortunate.
Preliminary report: this isn’t going to work, not without drastic contortions in the choice of tags (which IMO kills the effectiveness of the tactic). For instance, from my first set of 30 I tagged a number with the tag “personal”, predictions which only concern one user (or two acquainted with each other) and that I don’t want to see because I can’t effectively assess them. The Google query including “personal” returns close to 30 spurious results: for instance those containing “personal computer” or “personal transportation”. (A temporary workaround is to include the term “tags” in the query, but this will cease to work once a greater fraction of predictions have been tagged.)
You are correct about the likely outcome, but I think I’ve just proven your model of the underlying reasons wrong: I won’t do it because it won’t work, not because I lack the conscientiousness to do so, or because I’m too selfish to take on an effort that will benefit all users.
JoshuaZ has (example) been adding brackets to the tags, such as
[economics]. You don’t mention forcing Google to include the brackets, so it’s not surprising it includes those extra results.I don’t think google respects punctuation. It’s a common complaint.
Hm, you’re right. I did some searches on this, and apparently brackets are one of the special characters specifically excluded by Google (along with spam-licious ‘@’ and others). How unfortunate.