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comment by ecib
ecib  ·  3223 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Let's talk about following each other.

Autocompleting tags is actually a fantastic improvement on them imo.





thenewgreen  ·  3223 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Off the cuff: What if you could still put granular tags, like #grrlski on a post but then you HAD to place it in a bucket of an existing "master" tag list. For example, #gender. Then for content discovery, you could visit the gender tag and there see a bunch of posts with more nuanced tags like grrlski etc. ?

kleinbl00  ·  3223 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Set the WABAC Machine to October 15, 2013:

mk, I know you're fucking with padding but you need to put a CONTINUED or something at the bottom 'cuz this is a long-ass comment and you done cut it off with no indication that you've done so.

mk  ·  3223 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's actually not a padding issue. If you change your url from http to https, it should render competely. I believe it's our email directing to the http version, which won't host the https iframe content.

Basically our email link needs to send you to the https version. I'll fix it.

OftenBen  ·  3223 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Sounds like a subreddit waiting to happen imo. I like the idea of having a hierarchy of tags, but I don't know of a good way to implement it without significant other problems.

thenewgreen  ·  3223 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Sounds like a subreddit waiting to happen imo
You give no explanation whatsoever in to why you think this. Care to elaborate? I'm not the most well-versed in to subreddits. How would having tags like #higgsy, #ecology, #biology all fall under the master tag of #science for the sake of content discovery be like subreddits?
OftenBen  ·  3223 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I guess because the extra 'master' tag is kind of imposed.

With the example you give, it's an additional tag that probably should be added, but I don't see a value add in doing something users could/should do themselves for them.

Like I said, I like the idea of hierarchies of tags, I just think whatever is done, should be done with consideration of existing models(subreddits) and their shortcomings.