I don’t think sub-tags are a good idea. We considered sub-tags a lot when designing the tagging system, and more than 50% of the time when someone tried to create a sub-tag, it turned out to definitely not be a sub-tag, and sometimes diverge from the category it was part of. There might be some hierarchies you can find, but overall I am really skeptical of enshrining hierarchical concept structures.
Maybe we can deal with subtags like tagging posts, essentially tagging tags, and using relevance voting for the subtag with respect to the supertag? If it meets some threshold of net votes or vote percentage, then it is “officially” a subtag, and the supertags will also be added to a post when the subtag is. I’d guess you wouldn’t want to automatically remove supertags from a post if they no longer meet the threshold for the subtag they were added with, since that would confuse people.
Yeah, but I think the UI for that would end up being quite overwhelming and confusing. It’s not impossible to make work, but I think it would require a lot of work, and I think just having a “related tags” section in the tag description as we tend to have for most tags on LessWrong, is I think the right call.
It seems reasonable that sub-tags and hierarchies might cause too much confusion
However, it might be helpful to make it easier to relate tags together, right now the process is a bit cumbersome.
Suggestion 1 : Instead of sub-tags, it would be helpful to just have a “Related Tags” section where you can search and add a related tag, and have the option to provide a sentence explaining why/how it’s related
Suggestion 2: Make it easier to link to tags in all forum text (e.g. in comments, posts & tags) by @’ing them or somehow making it easy to link to other tags (and possibly even other users, tags & posts). I think this is probably more useful and would add more value than Suggestion 1.
Has anything like these two suggestions been considered?
Maybe we can deal with subtags like tagging posts, essentially tagging tags, and using relevance voting for the subtag with respect to the supertag? If it meets some threshold of net votes or vote percentage, then it is “officially” a subtag, and the supertags will also be added to a post when the subtag is. I’d guess you wouldn’t want to automatically remove supertags from a post if they no longer meet the threshold for the subtag they were added with, since that would confuse people.
Yeah, but I think the UI for that would end up being quite overwhelming and confusing. It’s not impossible to make work, but I think it would require a lot of work, and I think just having a “related tags” section in the tag description as we tend to have for most tags on LessWrong, is I think the right call.
Regarding sub-tags:
It seems reasonable that sub-tags and hierarchies might cause too much confusion
However, it might be helpful to make it easier to relate tags together, right now the process is a bit cumbersome.
Suggestion 1 : Instead of sub-tags, it would be helpful to just have a “Related Tags” section where you can search and add a related tag, and have the option to provide a sentence explaining why/how it’s related
Suggestion 2: Make it easier to link to tags in all forum text (e.g. in comments, posts & tags) by @’ing them or somehow making it easy to link to other tags (and possibly even other users, tags & posts). I think this is probably more useful and would add more value than Suggestion 1.
Has anything like these two suggestions been considered?