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lil  ·  3535 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I hate tags, I think they are broken.

_refugee_'s point that the lack of encouragement (circledots & comments) is not the same as discouragement is a good one.

Things are easily missed for a variety of reasons.

1. Following people or tags isn't the same as actually seeing what is posted.

2. Just because I follow 75 people, 13 tags, and 2 domains doesn't mean I'll actually see all the good stuff posted by those people, tags, and domains simply because there is just too much brilliant fabulous interesting things to read, music to listen to, videos to watch, and too little time.

3. Shout-outs are more likely to get a target audience's attention, but shout-outs imply an awareness of a particular user's interests.

4. Also, just because an item has no shares and no comments doesn't mean it has not been seen and appreciated.

5. I'd love to see the top 20 most shared and top 20 most commented items over the entire hub. My guess is that they are of the "text" variety and involve people chiming in on some personal issue, current music, or favourite quotes -- but maybe that's only what I see in my feed.

5. Final note: This item for example, had 147 comments and 16 shares. Most of the comments were on topics totally unrelated to the post. I'd say it's pretty typical. So even if you post something on a topic of interest to a specific tag, there's no guarantee that the topic will be addressed.