Are there any plans to implement tagging of whole sequences? I understand that tagging the first post in a sequence has a similar effect, but it might be more productive in some instances to have, for instance Slack and The Sabbath as the top link under the slack tag, rather than the individual posts from this sequence appearing in an order based on relevance.
Obviously that then creates issues about whether you want posts that appear in sequences to also appear individually or not, and whether you want all sequences to be taggable or not, and so on. I’m not sure if these issues outweigh the benefits; even just on an admin-only basis, it seems like a helpful feature if we expect a significant user base who don’t read the tag descriptions (the other place it might otherwise make sense to put sequence links).
(Other examples where this seems to me it might be more useful than the current method: Philosophy of language & A Human’s Guide To Words, Group Rationality & The Craft And The Community. I imagine there are more)
I also left a comment suggesting this. for now i’m just adding “Related Sequences” to the description with links to relevant sequences (see Epistemology for example), i hope in the future this can be done with actual tagging.
Yeah, I thought about this early on and it seemed very necessary. It’s not lost on me though how it’s kinda bad to have 20 posts from the same sequences just filling up the tag.
As you point out, there area bunch of challenges in figuring out all the right behaviors. There might be a solution where the benefits are worth it, but it’s gonna be work to figure out what it is. We’re first dealing with a heap of low-hanging fruit on tagging stuff.
In short, seems like a good idea to figure something out here, also seems tricky and so would be a bit further down the roadmap. For now, I think the Related Sequences is the best solution even if some people miss the section.
For sure! I figured the team wouldn’t have missed this, just wanted to give my two cents. For what it’s worth I think the tagging system is actually really nicely implemented already; I feel like a kid in a candy shop with all these posts that were just thoroughly inaccessible to me until now.
Are there any plans to implement tagging of whole sequences? I understand that tagging the first post in a sequence has a similar effect, but it might be more productive in some instances to have, for instance Slack and The Sabbath as the top link under the slack tag, rather than the individual posts from this sequence appearing in an order based on relevance.
Obviously that then creates issues about whether you want posts that appear in sequences to also appear individually or not, and whether you want all sequences to be taggable or not, and so on. I’m not sure if these issues outweigh the benefits; even just on an admin-only basis, it seems like a helpful feature if we expect a significant user base who don’t read the tag descriptions (the other place it might otherwise make sense to put sequence links).
(Other examples where this seems to me it might be more useful than the current method: Philosophy of language & A Human’s Guide To Words, Group Rationality & The Craft And The Community. I imagine there are more)
I also left a comment suggesting this. for now i’m just adding “Related Sequences” to the description with links to relevant sequences (see Epistemology for example), i hope in the future this can be done with actual tagging.
Yeah, I thought about this early on and it seemed very necessary. It’s not lost on me though how it’s kinda bad to have 20 posts from the same sequences just filling up the tag.
As you point out, there area bunch of challenges in figuring out all the right behaviors. There might be a solution where the benefits are worth it, but it’s gonna be work to figure out what it is. We’re first dealing with a heap of low-hanging fruit on tagging stuff.
In short, seems like a good idea to figure something out here, also seems tricky and so would be a bit further down the roadmap. For now, I think the Related Sequences is the best solution even if some people miss the section.
For sure! I figured the team wouldn’t have missed this, just wanted to give my two cents. For what it’s worth I think the tagging system is actually really nicely implemented already; I feel like a kid in a candy shop with all these posts that were just thoroughly inaccessible to me until now.
Your cents are appreciated! Really helpful to know which things stick out to people.
That was the goal! <3 Don’t eat too much candy.
I’m joking. Knock yourself out, this is the good stuff.