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Where should I discuss "tagging" in websites? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by actual_patience to c/[email protected]

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I want to discuss a better means of organizing tags for websites that use a generic tagging system. I propose a tag hierarchy.

Basically, if I search for #dog, I should find posts with #puppy, #pug, #baby_pugs, #cute_dogs, etc.

But, if I search for #pug, I should only get posts with #pug, or other tags like #baby_pugs, #cute_pugs, etc.

This would make adding 50+ similar tags to a post irrelevant and allow for normal people to put a single obscure tag and still gain visibility.

I want to bring this idea up to more people. Where should I discuss this? You can suggest any website, community, or Lemmy instance where I could possibly develop this further.

I'm happy to discuss this here as well.

[Edit for clarity]: I am not just talking about tags for the federation and Mastodon. I am talking about improving any and all websites with a generic tagging system. Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc. etc.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I don't have an actual answer to your question, but imma use the opportunity to let my age show.

Seeing as we're not on instagram or twitter, and seeing as this space is somewhat more techy than the average platform, could we please do tagging without precomiler instructions (or perl inline comments if that's more your thing)?

"#" deserves better than being referred to as "the hash tag sign".

[–] actual_patience 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This place is more techy, but please don't assume. I have no idea what you're arguing for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think they meant that # is used in many other ways than "the hash tag sign" and you should refer to it as such, e.g. as hash sign, pound sign or number sign.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Correct. Today I learned that putting it at the start of a line here makes it looks like you're yelling random statements.