The currently intended use is for people to delete tags by downvoting. However, (as a person on the dev/design team), I do personally agree that this is unintuitive. I wrote a post highlighting an alternate possible tag-voting system, although it didn’t end up getting much attention.
I think the issue is that it’s not easily discoverable that tags get deleted when they are downvoted and not clear how strongly they need to be downvoted to disappear. Maybe add a however text wheneever hovering over a button where clicking it would delete the tag?
That’s a good post, upvoted. Btw while I have a dev here I thought I would add two small nitpicks to this post that should be less controversial to fix.
No problem, btw I think the thing with 1 comments also happens with 1 posts and maybe even with 1 sequences. I made an account named “Test(will_delete_today)” to check if I had remembered that bug correctly and to make a screenshot. (Also I wanted to check how you can actually make your own sequence though I didn’t figure that one out). Turns out you can’t delete a LW-account, whoops, so you can delete the “Test(will_delete_today)” account if you want.
Ah, cool. Yeah, I discovered those issues while fixing the bug just now.
Sequences FYI are deliberately a bit obfuscated for new users (we prefer people to get more familiar with the site before they start creating them). Users with 1000 karma have a “New Sequence” button which appears in their user-menu (next to “New Post”). Users with less karma can still create sequences but need to go to the /library page to find the New Sequence button.
The currently intended use is for people to delete tags by downvoting. However, (as a person on the dev/design team), I do personally agree that this is unintuitive. I wrote a post highlighting an alternate possible tag-voting system, although it didn’t end up getting much attention.
I think the issue is that it’s not easily discoverable that tags get deleted when they are downvoted and not clear how strongly they need to be downvoted to disappear. Maybe add a however text wheneever hovering over a button where clicking it would delete the tag?
That’s a good post, upvoted. Btw while I have a dev here I thought I would add two small nitpicks to this post that should be less controversial to fix.
Ah, yeah those two bugs seem pretty straightforward. Thanks!
No problem, btw I think the thing with 1 comments also happens with 1 posts and maybe even with 1 sequences. I made an account named “Test(will_delete_today)” to check if I had remembered that bug correctly and to make a screenshot. (Also I wanted to check how you can actually make your own sequence though I didn’t figure that one out). Turns out you can’t delete a LW-account, whoops, so you can delete the “Test(will_delete_today)” account if you want.
Ah, cool. Yeah, I discovered those issues while fixing the bug just now.
Sequences FYI are deliberately a bit obfuscated for new users (we prefer people to get more familiar with the site before they start creating them). Users with 1000 karma have a “New Sequence” button which appears in their user-menu (next to “New Post”). Users with less karma can still create sequences but need to go to the /library page to find the New Sequence button.
Oh thanks, and don’t worry it will probably a long while before I want to start writing a sequences (if ever). It was just out of curiosity.