Based off of a suggestion @lou made about special tags, I wonder if would we could make a tag that is automatically applied when a lot of comments are added all at once and then removed when it reaches a more normal level of behavior?
I would like to suggest the implementation of two special tags: sensitive (read below) and support. The reason I am calling them "special" is that I am also suggesting that those tags have a special appearance that makes them more visible on the website, similar to the NSFW tag.
The Read below.sensitive tag should be applied to posts about sensitive topics that are likely to create intense emotional discussions. To avoid turning this very post into an example of what I am talking about, I won't give any specifics about the kind of topic that should receive that tag. But, generally speaking, those tags would be added to inherently controversial posts about issues of a political, personal, or otherwise sensitive nature.
The support tag is successfully used in /r/daddit. It is meant to disallow responses that serve primarily to gratify intellectual curiosity to the detriment of emotional support. A support tag means "this post is about providing emotional support to OP first and foremost".
I understand that many people don't really need tags to know what kind of post they are engaging with, and how they should respond. I certainly need those, which is why I am suggesting them.
This post is related to my previous submission.
The word "sensitive" was a bad choice from me. For the purpose of the ongoing conversation, please consider the suggestion to be instead for a contentious tag (or something to the effect which I describe below).
The word "contentious" better embodies what I am trying to convey, which are subjects requiring greater care and consideration than what is usually required given the site's history. So you would give this tag to subjects that were actually shown to be contentious based on multiple previous discussions, and not on the subjective sensibilities of anyone in particular.
Additionally, given the elevated concern of some responses, I believe it is valuable to highlight that, unlike labels, only the poster and mods can edit or add tags. So it is unlikely for someone to maliciously tag your content as contentious.
I came to Tildes to get away from the endless political talk of reddit. Is there any way to unsubscribe from the political threads here? Most of them seem to be posted in ~misc, but there's other content there too.
A pretty simple feature. Just seems like it would be handy to apply a tag to posts that provide non-paywalled or archive links for posts that are walled or 404'd. The idea just being that it seems too much to put an "Exemplary" tag on it, but it seems too significant to just get a vote.
Ideally this would add the free link under the "Link Description" scrape, but that's probably hard to do. I guess you could also promote the tagged comment to the top of the stack, but then it seems like you can game out the sort to promote your commentary rather than just the link.
It is currently possible to block unwanted tags on Tildes. It would be great to also have a feature that allows users to raise tags they're more interested in. Posts with raised tags will get a score multiplier for the user that raised them, in the same way as Exemplary comments get a score multiplier.
An example of a website that implements this really well is https://lesswrong.com, where you can give score multipliers to different tags to raise or lower them on your homepage.
With the constant influx of new users from Reddit, every once in a while I see people complain about some type of content that they find disruptive and annoying. They take their dissatisfaction to the comments, either criticizing the poster or expressing their annoyance.
Those contributions are often disruptive and offtopic themselves, derailing a potentially productive discussion
Tildes has a feature that may come in handy in those cases: filtered tags. It allows the user to prevent content they dislike from being displayed to them.
To add a filtered tag, click on Filtered topic tags right below Browse the list of groups. You will be taken to a page where you can add any tags that you want to filter, one per line.
For example, if you are displeased with the amount of videos on your frontpage, just add videos and save. Now you won't see any video submissions.
If, at any time, you wish to see those posts, you can either click on View unfiltered list at the top of the page or click on the tag Videos in your Filtered topic tags list.
That way, you will never be annoyed by content you don't like :)
If you don't like a type of content, don't complain about it. Filter it!