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zebra2  ·  3807 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Did You Know? --Some Hubski tips and remembrances --

There's some features here I didn't know about. Personal tags and adding editors specifically. Cool stuff.





thenewgreen  ·  3807 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, that is a big part of why I posted this. I don't think enough people are using the "personal tags" and my hope is that this will change. I would love to be able to follow personal tags for things like #music. In fact, here's a shout out to all the people I know I'd like to follow that tag from: flagamuffin, humanodon, cgod, ecib, sounds_sound and scrimetime. I'm going to unfollow music but I'd GLADLY follow music@ from any of ya'll.

ecib  ·  3807 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'd like to be able to force the tag on a user myself. For instance, if I wanted to see all content that cgod posts related to music it would be cool if I could just set music@cgod and get all his posts that he tags with 'music' rather than hoping he does so.

thenewgreen  ·  3807 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's a great point. mk it would be nice to eventually have such filters in place. It would be interesting to have the site tell you of all the music posts you shared who you share the most from.

_refugee_  ·  3807 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I plan on using personal tags with my next blog post and then onward. It's an interesting feature, it took me a while to think my head around it, but I get it now.

thenewgreen  ·  3807 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Not sure if you realize this, but you can also follow domains.

Side note, you might consider putting the link to Kenning Journal in your bio. I've gone there 3 times now at least assuming it would be there for me to link to. Instead I get your crush on kb :) -Just a suggestion.

_refugee_  ·  3803 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This is smart and something I had frankly never considered. I will do so. Thanks for the thought!

user-inactivated  ·  3807 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't ... I'm not sure music.flagamuffin or whatever makes sense in the context of subbing various youtube links. To me, at least. If you have to unfollow #music, maybe use #newmusic as an alternative. That's where I post.

I could see myself using a personal tag in future to submit my own poetry, etc.

thenewgreen  ·  3807 days ago  ·  link  ·  

yeah, but I may not like your #newmusic and now that tag sucks for me. But specifically following someones music tag ensures to me that I'm getting exactly what I signed up for. Nobody can dilute it.

btw, I don't think your newmusic posts would suck :)

user-inactivated  ·  3807 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hmm. I'm still not sure a personal tag would reach a large enough group to be feasible. Initially I saw it as a way to archive your own posts neatly. Which I would do with my own content, but wouldn't with things I merely posted for everyone's enjoyment. I'll think about it.

thenewgreen  ·  3807 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think both use cases exist. For example, I am pushing for the ability to add a personal tag to other people's posts. Why? Because I would like to be able to create archives such as #bestof2013.thenewgreen and go through the years posts and pick out my favorites. I would love to archive hubski's best content this way. I'm not sure people would "follow" that tag, but I would definitely share that link w friends etc outside of Hubski.

user-inactivated  ·  3807 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think that should be private or at least limited to showing up on your profile or something. I might want to look at some people's best of '13, but not everyone's, and not at the top of posts all the time.

thenewgreen  ·  3807 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I agree, you could go in to someone's profile and see "personal tags"

zebra2  ·  3807 days ago  ·  link  ·  

People starting their own music tags is a cool idea. It really expands the utility of the whole tag/following people dynamic. I'm tempted to make my own but I have no idea if anyone would be into the stuff I listen to.

thenewgreen  ·  3807 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I'm tempted to make my own but I have no idea if anyone would be into the stuff I listen to.
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