I’ve seen tags-as-subcommunities work well on MathOverflow, but I think that’s primarily because people other than posters can control the tags, and so readers can rely on posts on their topics eventually appearing with the standard tag identifying that topic (even if the poster is new and doesn’t use the standard tags). Plus, ability to subscribe to specific tags. Together, these features allow not looking through all posts, only looking at (aggregation of posts under) specific tags.
Just enabling a few admins to edit the tags won’t work, unless said admins are very meticulous and/or interested in all the topics. This requires more “moderators” to run reliably. MathOverflow deals with that by having karma thresholds for increasing users’ access level to more admin-ish actions.
I’ve seen tags-as-subcommunities work well on MathOverflow, but I think that’s primarily because people other than posters can control the tags, and so readers can rely on posts on their topics eventually appearing with the standard tag identifying that topic (even if the poster is new and doesn’t use the standard tags).
Allowing users with enough karma to add tags to posts sounds like a good idea, I’m often unsure if I’ve thought of all appropriate tags.
Edit tags, not just add. Using too many partially overlapping tags leads to tag inflation, where it’s hard to enumerate all tags you’d be interested in subscribing to.
I’d set it to 1000 or so. For this to work well, there should be some way of seeing and discussing changes, like wiki history and discussion pages, or stack exchange comments (as opposed to replies). For LW, I’d start with something like stack exchange comments (a meta-comment area under a post distinguished by lightweight layout, smaller font, and shifted by bigger left margin), and add special comments that mark edits to the post and post’s tags, with a link to the diff (“Fixed paragraph spacing [diff] -- 03 March 2012 08:30:42PM by Konkvistador”).
In the sense of using the same log in profile to edit wiki articles. As well as upvotes being used to encourage quality work being put into editing the wiki.
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Given unlimited development resources we’d want to integrate the two userbases, have a karma requirement to edit the Wiki, and such things, but we don’t have much development resources (whines for Python volunteers again). But I would still like to see a list of recent edits and/or active pages in the Less Wrong blog sidebar, and a list of recent blog posts and recent comments in the Wiki sidebar. Of course the first priority is getting the Wiki set up on Less Wrong at all, rather than the current foreign host—I’m told this is in In Progress.
I’ve seen tags-as-subcommunities work well on MathOverflow, but I think that’s primarily because people other than posters can control the tags, and so readers can rely on posts on their topics eventually appearing with the standard tag identifying that topic (even if the poster is new and doesn’t use the standard tags). Plus, ability to subscribe to specific tags. Together, these features allow not looking through all posts, only looking at (aggregation of posts under) specific tags.
Just enabling a few admins to edit the tags won’t work, unless said admins are very meticulous and/or interested in all the topics. This requires more “moderators” to run reliably. MathOverflow deals with that by having karma thresholds for increasing users’ access level to more admin-ish actions.
Allowing users with enough karma to add tags to posts sounds like a good idea, I’m often unsure if I’ve thought of all appropriate tags.
Edit tags, not just add. Using too many partially overlapping tags leads to tag inflation, where it’s hard to enumerate all tags you’d be interested in subscribing to.
Yes you are right. What would be the appropriate karma celling? I’m pretty sure it should be above 500 but not sure how much.
I’d set it to 1000 or so. For this to work well, there should be some way of seeing and discussing changes, like wiki history and discussion pages, or stack exchange comments (as opposed to replies). For LW, I’d start with something like stack exchange comments (a meta-comment area under a post distinguished by lightweight layout, smaller font, and shifted by bigger left margin), and add special comments that mark edits to the post and post’s tags, with a link to the diff (“Fixed paragraph spacing [diff] -- 03 March 2012 08:30:42PM by Konkvistador”).
Speaking of which a clever integration of LW and its wiki would be very beneficial.
I don’t know what that’s intended to mean.
In the sense of using the same log in profile to edit wiki articles. As well as upvotes being used to encourage quality work being put into editing the wiki.
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It seems this was envisioned in the beginning.