I think topics are great. They allow us to focus on certain posts and makes this flood of articles manageable. That said, I do think that forcing us to pick one topic for each article is severely limiting. Some articles span multiple topics. Somebody please tell me that multiple tags/topics is in the works.

alpha0: If the topic list is not constrained then ghettoization will continue unabated. If you think about it, an open ended tagset is hardly any more helpful than an ever increasing list of people one follows.

It is also like documenting code: there is too much left to the discretion of the poster.

Finally, tag centric viewing is a channel for 'spam'.

For tags to be effective in addressing the problem at hand, Hubski community must very carefully vet and approve the tagset. And the tag selected from the list (perhaps via autocomplete to make it not tedious).

It's a tough problem. I don't believe Hubski has solved the community communication and info overload problem. It is a difficult problem.

This is is NO WAY to distract from the incredible work that has gone into this great little community and platform.

([edit] mk: note that the stackoverflow has partially solved this problem by crowd sourcing the editorial system.)

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