Yeah, that is a big part of why I posted this. I don't think enough people are using the "personal tags" and my hope is that this will change. I would love to be able to follow personal tags for things like #music. In fact, here's a shout out to all the people I know I'd like to follow that tag from: flagamuffin, humanodon, cgod, ecib, sounds_sound and scrimetime. I'm going to unfollow music but I'd GLADLY follow music@ from any of ya'll.
I'd like to be able to force the tag on a user myself. For instance, if I wanted to see all content that cgod posts related to music it would be cool if I could just set music@cgod and get all his posts that he tags with 'music' rather than hoping he does so.
That's a great point. mk it would be nice to eventually have such filters in place. It would be interesting to have the site tell you of all the music posts you shared who you share the most from.
Not sure if you realize this, but you can also follow domains. Side note, you might consider putting the link to Kenning Journal in your bio. I've gone there 3 times now at least assuming it would be there for me to link to. Instead I get your crush on kb :) -Just a suggestion.
I don't ... I'm not sure music.flagamuffin or whatever makes sense in the context of subbing various youtube links. To me, at least. If you have to unfollow #music, maybe use #newmusic as an alternative. That's where I post. I could see myself using a personal tag in future to submit my own poetry, etc.
yeah, but I may not like your #newmusic and now that tag sucks for me. But specifically following someones music tag ensures to me that I'm getting exactly what I signed up for. Nobody can dilute it. btw, I don't think your newmusic posts would suck :)
Hmm. I'm still not sure a personal tag would reach a large enough group to be feasible. Initially I saw it as a way to archive your own posts neatly. Which I would do with my own content, but wouldn't with things I merely posted for everyone's enjoyment. I'll think about it.
I think both use cases exist. For example, I am pushing for the ability to add a personal tag to other people's posts. Why? Because I would like to be able to create archives such as #bestof2013.thenewgreen and go through the years posts and pick out my favorites. I would love to archive hubski's best content this way. I'm not sure people would "follow" that tag, but I would definitely share that link w friends etc outside of Hubski.
I agree, you could go in to someone's profile and see "personal tags"
I'm tempted to make my own but I have no idea if anyone would be into the stuff I listen to.
There's only one way to find out...