I think that people knowing what the tag means right away, is potentially a problem if that instant understanding is slightly wrong. E.g. if people only look at the tag’s name (which is what they’ll generally do if they have no reason to explicitly look up the description) they might feel that some posts that fit CI but not Tribalism are mis-tagged and downvote the tag relevance. Coalitional Instincts being less self-explanatory has the advantage that people are less likely to assume they know what it means without looking at the tag description.
I see the argument. I do think that people downvoting in order to maintain the tag are much more likely to have read the text vs people adding the tag.
But I predict the largest effect is most people don’t look at descriptions they don’t recognize and therefore don’t look at the tag at all, which is a shame because I think a lot of people are interested in the topic. Gut feeling is a 2-5x reduction in how much the tag gets looked at with the unfamiliar name, and I think that matters.
PS: I don’t want to make the decision here, I have enough tagging decisions to make already, so I’m leaving it up to others even though I’m offering some thoughts.
I think that people knowing what the tag means right away, is potentially a problem if that instant understanding is slightly wrong. E.g. if people only look at the tag’s name (which is what they’ll generally do if they have no reason to explicitly look up the description) they might feel that some posts that fit CI but not Tribalism are mis-tagged and downvote the tag relevance. Coalitional Instincts being less self-explanatory has the advantage that people are less likely to assume they know what it means without looking at the tag description.
I see the argument. I do think that people downvoting in order to maintain the tag are much more likely to have read the text vs people adding the tag.
But I predict the largest effect is most people don’t look at descriptions they don’t recognize and therefore don’t look at the tag at all, which is a shame because I think a lot of people are interested in the topic. Gut feeling is a 2-5x reduction in how much the tag gets looked at with the unfamiliar name, and I think that matters.
PS: I don’t want to make the decision here, I have enough tagging decisions to make already, so I’m leaving it up to others even though I’m offering some thoughts.
That’s a reasonable point. After this discussion, I think that I do lean towards just renaming it after all.