Larks comments on Fall 2010 Meta Thread - Less Wrong

6 Post author: Kevin 19 September 2010 06:30AM

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Comment author: Larks 20 September 2010 06:18:04PM 1 point [-]

There already is a tag system (you can see the links on the right). Do you want it to be more prominent?

Comment author: pjeby 20 September 2010 08:27:47PM 0 points [-]

I think he's actually speaking of a fixed, required taxonomy field, rather than free-tagging (to abuse Drupal terminology).

Free tagging is nice, but there's no way to structurally collapse the terms into a hierarchy, so that one can just browse "self improvement" - which might include akrasia, health, and improving personal rationality skills as subtopics.

Comment author: JGWeissman 20 September 2010 09:01:42PM 2 points [-]

there's no way to structurally collapse the terms into a hierarchy, so that one can just browse "self improvement" - which might include akrasia, health, and improving personal rationality skills as subtopics.

You could have a system where the tag "akrasia" is marked as a subtag of "self-improvement", so that any article tagged with "akrasia" is implicitly tagged with "self-improvement".

Comment author: Relsqui 20 September 2010 08:49:12PM 0 points [-]

structurally collapse the terms into a hierarchy, so that one can just browse "self improvement" - which might include akrasia, health, and improving personal rationality skills

I think this is also one of the arguments for subfora.