I feel a bit uncomfortable with “piling on tags” (maybe the phrase more than what you’re actually suggesting). I think it’s because when I’ve seen authors apply lots of tags to their own posts (I’m assuming the motivation), half the tags seem like a stretch and the posts were low karma/quality (less true of yours, but it’s an association now in my mind).
That said, I do think 4-5 tags can be reasonable, and more posts might hit that or more as we have more tags and people do more tagging. I’m mostly responding to the phrasing “piling on for easy visibility”. The heuristics Kaj and Multicore suggest feel right to me.
If the relevance is really there, it’s good to tag.
I’m glad you asked!
I feel a bit uncomfortable with “piling on tags” (maybe the phrase more than what you’re actually suggesting). I think it’s because when I’ve seen authors apply lots of tags to their own posts (I’m assuming the motivation), half the tags seem like a stretch and the posts were low karma/quality (less true of yours, but it’s an association now in my mind).
That said, I do think 4-5 tags can be reasonable, and more posts might hit that or more as we have more tags and people do more tagging. I’m mostly responding to the phrasing “piling on for easy visibility”. The heuristics Kaj and Multicore suggest feel right to me.
If the relevance is really there, it’s good to tag.