Feature suggestion: Suggest related tags
The recent implementation of automatic tag suggestion has inspired another idea for me.
What if Tildes could suggest related tags to the one(s) you've already chosen? You select a tag for your topic, and then Tildes suggests other tags to add to your topic, sourced from tags which have been commonly used in association with that tag you've selected.
For example:
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You tag a topic with "facebook", and Tildes suggests "social media" and "privacy" to add.
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You tag a topic with "world war ii", and Tildes suggests "history", "nazis", and "military" to add.
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You tag a topic with "avengers", and Tildes suggests "marvel" and "superheroes" to add.
The data could be obtained by monitoring the frequency of associations between various tags: if tag B is frequently used in association with tag A, then tag B would be suggested as an additional option whenever tag A is used.
This would probably take some substantial work to implement, but I definitely agree it could be very handy to have eventually.
p.s. Added to gitlab:
https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/issues/436
Oh, I know this wouldn't be an easy feature to create! And it's not something for the short term. But I figured I should suggest it while it's on my mind, so it can be added to the "to do" list.
And, thank you.
I like that because it's not using up precious human labor (mod clicks), too.
We'll have to play with what it means to be a 'tag' anyway. I imagine defining a group of tags that are commonly used as synonyms and picking the 'best' one of that group to display whenever someone enters any of the group, for example. That'll help uniformity and ease of use and save on mod clicks. Mods could help define the cloud of synonyms instead of forever correcting common mistaggings.