8 votes

Community based tag-curation

Posted by NaraVara
Tags: suggestions, tags, moderation

This was inspired by this post where the user tagged the post as "sugges" rather than "suggestions."

Since tags decline in utility with minor spelling mistakes like this, I wonder if there could be a way for nitpicky grammarians, like myself, to just go through an edit broken tags, add relevant tags, prune unnecessary ones, etc.

I guess it would be sort of a moderation responsibility, but I expect we would prefer they focus on content moderation. Tag editing is low-key enough that people with this responsibility probably wouldn't need to be vetted as thoroughly or held to the same kind of community standards of behavior that a mod would be. We'd just have to trust them to not be pranksters or abusive with it (e.g. making tags like "this poster is a doodyhead").

15 comments

  1. [2]
    Amarok
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    @Deimos can hand out this permission already. You volunteering? ;)

    @Deimos can hand out this permission already. You volunteering? ;)

    9 votes
  2. [11]
    Deimos
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    Like @Amarok said, quite a few people already have permissions to edit tags. I've given you that access now as well.

    Like @Amarok said, quite a few people already have permissions to edit tags. I've given you that access now as well.

    8 votes
    1. NaraVara
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      Thanks! Guess we can lock this one up.

      Thanks! Guess we can lock this one up.

      4 votes
    2. [9]
      asoftbird
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      I too would like to spend a bit of time fixing tags if that's okay.

      I too would like to spend a bit of time fixing tags if that's okay.

      3 votes
      1. Amarok
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        @Deimos we've got another volunteer. :)

        @Deimos we've got another volunteer. :)

        3 votes
      2. [7]
        Deimos
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        There you go.

        There you go.

        2 votes
        2. [5]
          asoftbird
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          Question: should l use this to add relevant tags that should be there but aren't for whatever reason? Like a current front page post tagged "politics" but not "usa" for example. Or do l call out...

          Question: should l use this to add relevant tags that should be there but aren't for whatever reason? Like a current front page post tagged "politics" but not "usa" for example.

          Or do l call out the OP in a comment or dm with "hey, maybe add [x] tag" ?

          2 votes
          1. [3]
            cfabbro
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            I usually just add the missing tags since there is really no point in cluttering up the topic with meta discussion like that.

            I usually just add the missing tags since there is really no point in cluttering up the topic with meta discussion like that.

            3 votes
            1. [2]
              asoftbird
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              Yea, l was thinking the same, just checking in case l get angry DMs :') Edit: and damnit, you "stole" the tag l was talking about :p

              Yea, l was thinking the same, just checking in case l get angry DMs :')

              Edit: and damnit, you "stole" the tag l was talking about :p

              1 vote
              1. cfabbro
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                If you get an angry DM/PM for simply adding an appropriate missing tag, depending on the severity, that may be worth reporting to Deimos. And yeah, after you mentioned a politics topic with no usa...

                If you get an angry DM/PM for simply adding an appropriate missing tag, depending on the severity, that may be worth reporting to Deimos. And yeah, after you mentioned a politics topic with no usa tag I immediately noticed which one you were referring to and fixed it. Sorry to steal your thunder. ;)

                2 votes
          2. Deimos
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            Yeah, definitely feel free to add obvious missing tags or fix other issues.

            Yeah, definitely feel free to add obvious missing tags or fix other issues.

            3 votes
  3. [2]
    Algernon_Asimov
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    I see that Deimos already gave you this permission. However, you might still be interested in reading about how this tag-editing power was implemented. (I see that this happened a few months...

    I see that Deimos already gave you this permission. However, you might still be interested in reading about how this tag-editing power was implemented. (I see that this happened a few months before you signed up, so that explains why you missed it.)

    And here's the how-to section on Editing topics.

    7 votes