OK. So you see the grading as being more of a “neglected-o-meter” in the sense that it describes the gap between how a tag currently is and how it would be in an ideal world? (i.e. a more important tag would have a higher bar for being A-grade than a less important one?)
I think that makes more sense than an absolute-quality stamp, but I think the tag grading post as is currently written should make that clear (if it is the case)-- currently it implies almost the opposite, at least as I read it. For instance phrases like “It covers a valuable topic” in A-grade, and “tagged posts may not be especially good.” in C-grade. To me these read as “quality/importance of topic and of posts are as important for grading as description”.
I think actually the way you’re describing tags now is more useful (for e.g. directing peoples attention for improving tags), but I’m not sure if it came across that way (to me) in the initial post. I would be interested to hear how other people read it.
Yes, “neglected-o-meter” is a good way of putting it. The idea was a bit tricky to convey, I guess I didn’t have it super well-articulated in my own head.
The idea was that:
Tag grades identify tags in need of work.
For each grade, there’s a set of standard things to do to improve them. (This seemed better than individually marking tags as “needs more posts” or “needs better description”)
And also additionally that tags reflect absolute quality as well, such that if you only want the best tags, you can filter for that. I didn’t realize that what I’d consider A-Grade for an obscure topic with limited content would be different for a major topic where there’s lot to be said. Another difference is how fundamental and introductory a topic is, where topics that a person is early on in someone’s LW journey need extra polish.
Now that people are writing more tag descriptions, the gaps in the system are coming out. I’ve felt somewhat that I should give any tag that seems to meet the criteria a grade, but then in some cases there’s still more I’d want. This might be solved by making the criteria better and clearer.
I apologize for the confusion. We’re about to go on team retreat, but when we get back maybe taggers in this thread and the LW team can refine the system/schema.
OK. So you see the grading as being more of a “neglected-o-meter” in the sense that it describes the gap between how a tag currently is and how it would be in an ideal world? (i.e. a more important tag would have a higher bar for being A-grade than a less important one?)
I think that makes more sense than an absolute-quality stamp, but I think the tag grading post as is currently written should make that clear (if it is the case)-- currently it implies almost the opposite, at least as I read it. For instance phrases like “It covers a valuable topic” in A-grade, and “tagged posts may not be especially good.” in C-grade. To me these read as “quality/importance of topic and of posts are as important for grading as description”.
I think actually the way you’re describing tags now is more useful (for e.g. directing peoples attention for improving tags), but I’m not sure if it came across that way (to me) in the initial post. I would be interested to hear how other people read it.
Yes, “neglected-o-meter” is a good way of putting it. The idea was a bit tricky to convey, I guess I didn’t have it super well-articulated in my own head.
The idea was that:
Tag grades identify tags in need of work.
For each grade, there’s a set of standard things to do to improve them. (This seemed better than individually marking tags as “needs more posts” or “needs better description”)
And also additionally that tags reflect absolute quality as well, such that if you only want the best tags, you can filter for that. I didn’t realize that what I’d consider A-Grade for an obscure topic with limited content would be different for a major topic where there’s lot to be said. Another difference is how fundamental and introductory a topic is, where topics that a person is early on in someone’s LW journey need extra polish.
Now that people are writing more tag descriptions, the gaps in the system are coming out. I’ve felt somewhat that I should give any tag that seems to meet the criteria a grade, but then in some cases there’s still more I’d want. This might be solved by making the criteria better and clearer.
I apologize for the confusion. We’re about to go on team retreat, but when we get back maybe taggers in this thread and the LW team can refine the system/schema.
Thanks for your patience.