One criticism I have that has stopped me getting into this site more than my other social news haunts, is that since hashtags can be anything, a cool article doesn't allow me to find other cool articles via its hashtag as often, because it might be something too specific. I'm not sure if that makes sense, or how to address it really, but perhaps a suggested hashtag feature?
As the posting rate picks up, I have plans to implement lists of trending tags and, and also hot posts, so that it's a bit easier to get a glimpse of what is going on Hubski outside of your feed.
Specifically, there's a post about the history of the McRib, but since people are allowed to write anything they like as their tag, it's listed as #wheresthebeef. There are no other posts in #wheresthebeef, nor are there likely to ever be. So even though this is a cool story, it doesn't let me find more like it, because of the lack of restrictions on tags. It could be under #food or #fastfood or even #mcdonalds, but as a once off tag it has less utility. So perhaps if there was an algorithm to suggest tags based on the content of the article it might help.
Hey Niksko, the tagging function has changed and now if you read something that you think is inappropriately tagged, you can add a secondary tag to it. This should help with this. check it out
But it's... cooler. http://tinyurl.com/c3y8s7l ;)
Food would have more company: http://hubski.com/tag?id=food I'm going to think on this. Good suggestion.