Community Tags

[evildice]

Let us have another 30 tags for each story thread -- 30 tags which can't be set by the author, only by community suggestions.

- No free-form tags, only tags which already exist can be voted up.
- Can't community-vote for a tag which the author already put on the thread.
- Only tags with a threshold number of votes show up on the thread's default interface.
- Each user can vote for some small number of extra tags per thread.
- Community tags which the author "promotes" into being author-approved regular tags ought to refund votes.

 

[riotous living]

Let us have another 30 tags for each story thread -- 30 tags which can't be set by the author, only by community suggestions.

- No free-form tags, only tags which already exist can be voted up.
- Can't community-vote for a tag which the author already put on the thread.
- Only tags with a threshold number of votes show up on the thread's default interface.
- Each user can vote for some small number of extra tags per thread.
- Community tags which the author "promotes" into being author-approved regular tags ought to refund votes.

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That would probably need a plugin but sounds pretty neat. Like the nhentai tagging system? Also, would this be better as opt-in or as a new built-in feature?

You might want something that returns a tag to being a community tag if the author promotes then removes it, in case someone intentionally does that to remove a single tag.

 

[evildice]

Like the nhentai tagging system?

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Yeah, exactly.

Also, would this be better as opt-in or as a new built-in feature?

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Probably built-in because opt-in would require that inexperienced or tech-unsavvy authors turn it on, and their threads are the ideal audience for the feature.

The feature is basically a way to handle cases where a thread has more-experienced / more-savvy readership relative to the thread's author, plus cases where the author is long gone but the thread is now being read by people who recognize a new category of writing that wasn't known / popular / relevant when the story was originally posted.

 

[SnarkLord]

This suggested thing bloody well better have an opt-out option for every single thread an author makes then, because, shocking as it may come to some readers, there are authors that intentionally don't want to tag things related to their threads for reasons they are not even remotely obliged to reveal to anyone.
Maybe they don't want to have their thread connected to a fandom even though it features in some snippets. Maybe they don't feel that that a tag belongs to their work.
And maybe they don't want to share with a large audience, but whoever happens to stumble on the thread.

 

[tacobowl8]

This is also somewhat of a non-starter from the mod perspective because this is another form of user to user interaction that Mods do not have an easy time moderating. Suppose a group gets together and forces a "<User is a bitch>" tag on up. Well, that is easy harassment, but how do we differentiate between who was part of the forcing group and who accidentally clicked it? We can't easily (this is also why we essentially never use likes as a data point aside from the fact that a user clicked like and thus was at worst tangentially aware that the post existed).

And then, we get to the actual hard part. What one group might think is an accurate tag might not be what the author thinks is accurate? Well, the mod staff would need to read the whole thread to figure out what is actually accurate, and nobody has time for that, let alone moderators. So, if we can't/won't figure it out, we would probably just side with the author. Who can already put whatever tags they want up.

(this also gets into hot button issues like "I think your story is AI written, so I'm going to upvote the AI tag", even though there is NO foolproof way to definitively say one way or another. And this isn't even getting into harassment via misrepresentative tags either. Preemptive: THIS IS NOT ONE OF THE AI THREADS. DO NOT DEBATE AI HERE.)