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user-inactivated  ·  4070 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Handling inappropriate community tags

i have a confession to make. i have been responsible for nearly every #no tag so far. ...and a few other malicious/facetious tags.

i was wondering when yall would get around to discussing this. the best course of action is to simply Δ# it. community tags are very temporary and don't last very long unless everyone agrees with it.

displaying who applies tags is probably a bad idea, because people might not like the way you've tagged their post even if it's accurate. tagging is probably the closest thing we have to a "downvote" and once you start revealing who's behind tags you will change their behavior significantly.

imo, a bigger problem is bad submitter tags. for example #politics is often used where #uspolitics is more appropriate. this is hostile to non-US users and eliminates the space for articles about politics in general.