NancyLebovitz comments on Official Less Wrong Redesign: Call for Suggestions - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Louie 20 April 2011 05:56PM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 20 April 2011 10:06:44PM *  16 points [-]

Public tagging, possibly with a karma restriction for who's allowed to do it.

Comment author: jsalvatier 21 April 2011 01:41:10AM 6 points [-]

This helps develop consistent tags which can be very useful for searching. This works well for stackoverflow/stackexchange.

Comment author: jwhendy 21 April 2011 03:33:38AM *  4 points [-]

And on that note, I wonder if the discussion section would benefit from Stack Overflow-like suggestions of related posts. I love how ominous it is asking questions there: "Are you suuuuuuuurrre you think you've reeeaaaallly got something unique to ask?"

Since a lot of new people post in Discussions, it might be neat to use such a tool to show similar/related posts. At worst they get to read some other views on something similar, at best it might prevent redundant topics that someone thinks is unique.

Comment author: Alicorn 20 April 2011 10:10:26PM 1 point [-]

This is an editor power. I haven't spotted an opportunity to deploy it yet - anything you think should be tagged differently?

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 20 April 2011 10:25:00PM 2 points [-]

I just checked the most recent top-level non-meetup posts, and most of them only have one tag. It seems to me that people's classification systems are sufficiently varied that letting people tag would accommodate the way they remember articles.