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comment by Kaius
Kaius  ·  3851 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I hate tags, I think they are broken.

Tagging can help you if you set out to find something related to a specific topic. Or at least it would if our tags were more focused. For example #civilwar. But thats not 'discovery' in the way I meant.

On the other hand it can work against you by hiding interesting topics that have been squeezed into an ill fitting tag which you do not follow.

Right now I tend to ignore tags and instead go fishing in global, ranking by mid to high votes.