The goal of tags is to be used as a curated collection over time.
Better to not tag events, as they won’t be relevant after a short while.
Better to tag with more specific tags than broad tags.
Vote on tags if you think the post is very relevant to that tag (and so it will show up earlier in the case where people look up through posts on that tag) and downvote when it’s less relevant.
Since tags are moderated, it is better to just add many tags and they will be checked for relevance and accuracy. So if you think that some tag would be useful, just go about it. (As a moderator here, I think that tags are very important and I’ll gladly spend time going over more tags if that causes more tags to be created)
Good tags should have a balance between not being too small to be irrelevant and not being too big so that the list wouldn’t help readers going through it and it would take a lot of overhead to tag new posts.
I don’t think that we should be that concerned with having a tag that’s too big on the EA forum.
Generally, one can filter through several tags, so I’m not sure what to make of it. @Habryka, I’d be interested in your opinion on this.
Tags should avoid being too near other tags. This can be clarified in the description.
Tag evolution:
The tagging system is collectively applied which limits its ability to maintain tags with high-degrees of subjective nuance.
Tags overall experience pressure to be as inclusive as possible. If a concept is at all loosely connected to a topic, someone will apply it.
The general result of the above is that a closely related, although theoretically distinct, concepts will end up blurred and having heavy redundant post overlap.
Tag names should be as clear as possible, even for people who don’t understand it in full neuance.
It’s perfectly fine to use multiple names when is appropriate.
Keep tag names brief. Use & or / instead of and. (I should rename Col≤ctionsandResources).
Tag description should have the tag name in bold and link to related tags. (again, I should change things 😊)
Regarding norms, some interesting notes from the Tagging FAQ at LW:
The goal of tags is to be used as a curated collection over time.
Better to not tag events, as they won’t be relevant after a short while.
Better to tag with more specific tags than broad tags.
Vote on tags if you think the post is very relevant to that tag (and so it will show up earlier in the case where people look up through posts on that tag) and downvote when it’s less relevant.
Since tags are moderated, it is better to just add many tags and they will be checked for relevance and accuracy. So if you think that some tag would be useful, just go about it. (As a moderator here, I think that tags are very important and I’ll gladly spend time going over more tags if that causes more tags to be created)
Good tags should have a balance between not being too small to be irrelevant and not being too big so that the list wouldn’t help readers going through it and it would take a lot of overhead to tag new posts.
I don’t think that we should be that concerned with having a tag that’s too big on the EA forum.
Generally, one can filter through several tags, so I’m not sure what to make of it. @Habryka, I’d be interested in your opinion on this.
Tags should avoid being too near other tags. This can be clarified in the description.
Tag evolution:
The tagging system is collectively applied which limits its ability to maintain tags with high-degrees of subjective nuance.
Tags overall experience pressure to be as inclusive as possible. If a concept is at all loosely connected to a topic, someone will apply it.
The general result of the above is that a closely related, although theoretically distinct, concepts will end up blurred and having heavy redundant post overlap.
Tag names should be as clear as possible, even for people who don’t understand it in full neuance.
It’s perfectly fine to use multiple names when is appropriate.
Keep tag names brief. Use & or / instead of and. (I should rename Col≤ctionsandResources).
Tag description should have the tag name in bold and link to related tags. (again, I should change things 😊)
Thanks for this comment. In that case, I’ll go ahead and make those tags, and others at a similar level of granularity :)
ETA: Just noticed there was also a very brief discussion of tagging norms on the forum, here. (But that wasn’t about creating tags.)