Suggestion: Tag-shortcut-buttons on post create page

chips
2018-08-17T01:19:43Z

So there is a basic flair in use for the nsfw and spoiler There was also a recent discussion about using tags to warn about content in posts https://tildes.net/~tildes/50o/trigger_warning_tag_special_flair

Would it help to have buttons for the common "standard" tags next to the Tags entry on the post creation page? So e.g. there could be an nsfw-button and a spoiler-button below the text field

The buttons could be styled with the same flair as the corresponding tags

The buttons could simply append the tag to the text in the field.

A few plus points:

This would help encourage people to use these important tags correctly (they will be reminded visually that the tags exist when creating a post, and clicking the button is easy which will reduce the effort required)

Also it would avoid typos where e.g. someone types "nfsw" and the flair will not be applied (fyi: I had to re-read that 3 times to be sure I correctly mis-typed the word)

And some potential downsides:

Might it encourage people to just click the buttons and skip correctly tagging their post?

If more of these "standard" tags were added it might get cluttered

What do you think?

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