Two days ago, we started an experiment appending a Personal Tag to each post.
One thing we learned quickly, was that most of us didn't like the repetitiveness of posts displaying a tag, followed by a personal tag. For example, if rrrrr tagged a post with #privacy with a community tag of #linux, the tags were be presented as:
#privacy · #privacy.rrrrr · #linux #privacy.rrrrr · #linuxSimilarly, '#privacy' will be blue if you follow the #privacy tag, and '#privacy.rrrrr' will be blue if you follow that tag.
As always, feedback is welcome.
Seems like a reasonable way to handle it, less clutter is always good. Are we still sticking with 2 tags now? I liked the option to post something to both a broad and specific topic, for example #music and #classical. I trust the community to apply a fitting community tag, and know we are able to suggest that tag when we post, but it seems we lose a little of the ability for a post to cross over into a fitting tag that the submitter didn't think of when they posted. Say I posted to #music and suggested #bach for the community tag. The community may be less likely to change the #bach tag to #classical, as it is a fitting tag, but someone following only #classical would miss it. Personally, I'd really like to see the number of community tags that can be applied to a post go up the more it is shared. Keep posts at 2 tags starting out, and increase it after x number of shares. This would allow more universally enjoyed posts to show up for more people, while still keeping more niche post in their respective tags. This post:Poetry's Alive, We Just Call It Rap is a great example, currently it is in #poetry and #music, 2 very fitting tags for it. #Music is a broad tag that many users are aware of, so it is likely to always be chosen by the community as the community tag on posts like this. It has been enjoyed, and has a full hubwheel now. It would be great if the community could add #hiphophubski to it at this point, as followers of that tag would likely find it interesting as well.
That's an interesting idea. I'd like to let this update play out a bit before making any decisions, but that is definitely good food for thought. EDIT: I have also considering the possibility that this condensed format could allow the previous 2 tags per post, plus the community tag. However, I think using this implementation for at least a couple of weeks will help us to best modify it, assuming the need is there.
I will say that the way you do the underlining is fantastic. It clarifies that when you mouse over ".mk", you are referencing the whole tag. I'm curious, do you have any plans to implement this on this actual post page (this page)? All in all, fantastic update! Thanks for the quick response.
Thanks. I was pretty happy to be able to pull that off with CSS. I've since changed the post pages to have the same format. My first impression was that it wasn't necessary on the posts due to less space constraints; however, I think it's more instructive to keep them uniform.