As for multiple categories, well that was one of the top few criticisms of LessWrong, the site that this forum was built from. At the time of starting the forum, there was a resounding call for all the content to be lumped together into one feed. Nonetheless, people can comment straight away and only need five karma to post a new thread.
I think having a feed where it can all be seen is valuable, but I’m getting increasingly worried about the lack of ability to find old posts in the forum because there aren’t categories. (This wasn’t a problem in the first few months while there was little enough material.) I expect this will lead to me using the forum less than I might have done in the future.
Search is pretty helpful. I have two issues with it (neither huge):
1) For some reason it seems to work inconsistently for me. Sometimes it doesn’t load the search results. (I haven’t been able to identify enough of a pattern that reporting a bug seems useful)
2) It’s not always clear what to search for, or what material is out there. A small set of tags, consistently used, would help with this.
I think having a feed where it can all be seen is valuable, but I’m getting increasingly worried about the lack of ability to find old posts in the forum because there aren’t categories. (This wasn’t a problem in the first few months while there was little enough material.) I expect this will lead to me using the forum less than I might have done in the future.
[This is also my main problem with LessWrong.]
One can add tags to one’s posts.
We’re planning to make them more visible, when it works its way up the priority queue: https://www.facebook.com/groups/dotimpact/permalink/489215301246125/
Thanks, that’s good news.
What about having someone curate old posts to keep tags consistent? (many posts aren’t tagged)
Sounds like something we could maybe get a volunteer to do, though I don’t think it would be high priority. What do you think?
Nice idea, I think that’s exactly right. Low priority but clearly-defined and net beneficial task.
Yeah, this could work well if used more thoroughly.
You can search posts (upper right corner of screen) and can view posts from a given user by clicking their name then ‘submitted’
Search is pretty helpful. I have two issues with it (neither huge):
1) For some reason it seems to work inconsistently for me. Sometimes it doesn’t load the search results. (I haven’t been able to identify enough of a pattern that reporting a bug seems useful)
2) It’s not always clear what to search for, or what material is out there. A small set of tags, consistently used, would help with this.
I think popular wisdom is that it’s pretty-much impossible to enforce tags on a group blog.
Let me know if you find a consistent pattern!