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Comment author: jsalvatier 27 September 2011 02:58:24PM 2 points [-]

Yes! Stackexchange/overflow is really well designed. There are many things which LW (and for that matter other most community sites) could learn from SE. Editing posts is a good one. They also do a really good job of making tags work well. We have a couple of editors but we could really use more.

Comment author: lukeprog 26 November 2011 04:54:28AM 0 points [-]

What other lessons could LW learn from Stackexchange/overflow?

Comment author: jsalvatier 26 November 2011 05:42:16AM *  1 point [-]

Here are some things that I suspect make tagging on SE work well:

  • Searching by tags works well
  • You can mark some tags as favorites so that they are prioritized or excluded for you
  • Tags prominently displayed
  • Tag suggestions based on commonly used tags/words used in your post : seems like a good idea
  • Lots of people can retag posts : seems like a good idea
  • Tag wiki pages: good idea, probably would not take much work
  • Information about 'related tags'
  • Could just be that there are so many disparate topics that tags are more important
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