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Is there a reason I cannot have a tag people.doing.something
I usually don't mind my tags getting erased and someone putting a more appropriate tag, but I want to know what is wrong with people.doing.something, or someone doing something, or someone.doing.something. I tried various ways today, and each one got removed, and I would like to know why.
Probably best expressed as a PM to @Deimos, but I'd probably say it's because that's not a good use of tag nesting, which is meant to expose a hierarchical structure.
doingisn't really a nested domain ofpeople.Nested tags for the most part should be a niche thing anyway. There's nearly always an appropriate top level term for what needs to be expressed.
Thank you for replying.
If I am understanding you correctly, tags are only hierarchical?
If that is true, can you, or someone else, help me come up with a tag that means "people doing something?"
Having read your examples, you're probably after something like
activism,entrepreneurship, or evenpolitics.grassroots, or a combination, or even all three.I really like grassroots! But not politics.grassroots, because it isn't always political
I'm not sure what that tag is supposed to represent. That seems so generic that any post involving human beings would be covered. Are you looking specifically to tag activism? That sounds like a decent tag. I notice you've tried to use a companies doing things tag as well. Maybe activism.corporate. I'm not sure if those are acceptable tags but they're probably closer to the mark.
As aside - I should be in be in bed - waking up very early won't be able to touch this again till day after tomorrow - maybe earlier - but I really shouldn't
I can see activism would be the tag - but the articles I am tagging as people.doing.something are not people trying to get other people to do something. They are people seeing a problem that needs attention and going their own way and doing SOMETHING about it on their own.
Examples :
https://tildes.net/~enviro/ifp/entrepreneurs_on_opposite_coasts_make_fish_friendly_booze
https://tildes.net/~enviro/if6/how_an_organic_dairys_quest_for_clean_energy_spread_solar_across_wisconsin - this one is more of a company doing something
https://tildes.net/~news/if4/forest_restoration_leads_to_major_win_for_the_kirtlands_warbler - this is a non-profit
I don't think activism necessarily implies trying to rope in other people. Just means, like you said, that someone is getting up and doing something about a real problem.
I confess that I have been the one often modifying your 'people doing something' tags. My thought process being that tags should best be used as generic topic headings for the article's content. A tool that should help people quickly navigate through subjects they might be interested in. 'People doing something' felt a little subjective without really expressing what great subjects your articles posted covered.
Understood!
Someone might want to follow a "people_doing_something" tag (e.g. RSS reader). Is there really fundamentally wrong with the idea?
One thing that I see touched on that is perhaps not made explicit:
people.doing.somethingis different from the tagpeople doing something.SpacesFull stops / periods don't interrupt a tag; they indicate a "subsection" of the previous tag. So you have three tags here: "people" then there's a tag "doing" and then "something". Doing and something aren't very descriptive tags, and would likely be removed.However, if you do just spaces, it becomes a fairly reasonable non-hierarchical tag: "people doing something". Other people have touched on that; I don't have a particularly strong opinion on it, but think that maybe "activism" or something might be what you're looking for.
He's used spaces in the tag before, if I'm remembering right
I had tried that too, and it got taken out. I thought it was a great idea!
Second paragraph, second sentence, you say "spaces" but I think you mean "dots" or "periods" or "full stops".
Good catch, edited!
I guess what I am looking for is a way to tag that shows that there are people doing something about the problems (doesn't matter what the problem is) that accost us daily. It's very easy to feel like there is nothing we can do, and to be fair the first articles I have posted with that tag are bigger in scope, but I feel like anyone can do SOMETHING and we should see others doing it or we kinda lose moral. you know?
It sounds like you're trying to use tags to express your own judgement/opinion of the article, and I don't think that's what tags are for (or should be for).
Understood!
last post for a bit:
people trying to make a difference
I guess that is the essence of the tag I am looking for