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comment by lke
lke  ·  3180 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Deleterious community tags

I think every tag should have an user attached to it implicitly. That is tagging a post with a certain tag should also make it appear in #tag.username of the tagging user. But the personal tag doesn't appear in the tag list unless it was explicitly set.

Imagine oscar is a top contributor, posting interesting articles on all sorts of subject, but also a fan of an underwater pan flute group of which he posts videos day in and day out under the tag #music. In this condition following oscar would mean a sizable portion of my feed is now underwater pan flute. But I don't want to filter #music because I actually like music that's not underwater pan flute. If all tag are implicitly attached to the user I could follow oscar and filter #music.oscar without oscar having to used one off this 2 tags as #music@

I don't know if that would work for the matter at hand but it would be very helpful to combine tags & user when following or filtering.





steve  ·  3180 days ago  ·  link  ·  

this was a feature until somewhat recently - but I can't remember all of the reasons why it was removed. It let me follow #thenewgreen, but filter out #music.thenewgreen because he always drones ON and ON about the effing beatles....

I kid of course, about the beatles, but there was, at one time, this feature.

mk  ·  3180 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes, we implemented it a year ago:

This is some of the reasoning we had for removing it:

cgod  ·  3180 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I really liked username tagging. There is so much garbage in tags like music, but a few people post really great stuff, user name tags made these easier to sort.

syzo  ·  3180 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Music is definitely a thing you have to split up into genres and follow the tags like that. There's no way i'd subscribe to /r/music on reddit, but i follow a bunch of more-specific subs and find a lot of good music that way.

This method doesn't work well unless everyone starts using genre-specific tags, though. It also sucks when you want to subscribe to something like "interesting music from obscure artists", where it doesn't necessarily have to fall under any specific genre.

But yeah i would definitely post a lot of music to #music.syzo if i could, but otherwise i feel like i'm just shoveling on more garbage to #music and would be a good way to get me filtered.

CraigEllsworth  ·  3174 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I started posting music under both #music (or #metal) #music.CraigEllsworth, but I just removed the #music.CraigEllsworth from my music posts because the tag makes it sound like I made the music myself, when of course that's not what I mean. I suppose it would make more sense to put it back on my music posts?

cgod  ·  3180 days ago  ·  link  ·  

People are often as good as general when the community is this small.

steve  ·  3180 days ago  ·  link  ·  

and I remembered that there were reasons for removing it... I just couldn't remember those reasons. :-)