And on that note, I wonder if the discussion section would benefit from Stack Overflow-like suggestions of related posts. I love how ominous it is asking questions there: “Are you suuuuuuuurrre you think you’ve reeeaaaallly got something unique to ask?”
Since a lot of new people post in Discussions, it might be neat to use such a tool to show similar/related posts. At worst they get to read some other views on something similar, at best it might prevent redundant topics that someone thinks is unique.
I just checked the most recent top-level non-meetup posts, and most of them only have one tag. It seems to me that people’s classification systems are sufficiently varied that letting people tag would accommodate the way they remember articles.
Public tagging, possibly with a karma restriction for who’s allowed to do it.
This helps develop consistent tags which can be very useful for searching. This works well for stackoverflow/stackexchange.
And on that note, I wonder if the discussion section would benefit from Stack Overflow-like suggestions of related posts. I love how ominous it is asking questions there: “Are you suuuuuuuurrre you think you’ve reeeaaaallly got something unique to ask?”
Since a lot of new people post in Discussions, it might be neat to use such a tool to show similar/related posts. At worst they get to read some other views on something similar, at best it might prevent redundant topics that someone thinks is unique.
This is an editor power. I haven’t spotted an opportunity to deploy it yet—anything you think should be tagged differently?
I just checked the most recent top-level non-meetup posts, and most of them only have one tag. It seems to me that people’s classification systems are sufficiently varied that letting people tag would accommodate the way they remember articles.