I’m reminded of how certain subreddits allow you to add tags/flair your posts. These serve often as metadata about the type of post (serious, venting, question, discussion, silly, etc.), and roughly informs people on how they should engage with the post. I know that the EA Forum has ‘topics,’ but that is about the topic of the post rather than the style/register.
Do you think it would help if the EA forum had tags like “fun/silly,” “serious discussion,” “butterfly thought,” and so on, as a way to specifically indicate that a post should/shouldn’t be interpreted in a dry and somber manner?
Good point — yeah the Forum has a few tags in a similar vein (like Opinion), so that’s a possibility. Personally I feel like the question of tone matters more for comments than top-level posts (like, posts are almost always serious, except around April Fools day) so I’m not sure this would make much difference. (Also I think adding more tags would make the UI more cluttered so I’m hesitant to encourage that.)
I’m reminded of how certain subreddits allow you to add tags/flair your posts. These serve often as metadata about the type of post (serious, venting, question, discussion, silly, etc.), and roughly informs people on how they should engage with the post. I know that the EA Forum has ‘topics,’ but that is about the topic of the post rather than the style/register.
Do you think it would help if the EA forum had tags like “fun/silly,” “serious discussion,” “butterfly thought,” and so on, as a way to specifically indicate that a post should/shouldn’t be interpreted in a dry and somber manner?
Good point — yeah the Forum has a few tags in a similar vein (like Opinion), so that’s a possibility. Personally I feel like the question of tone matters more for comments than top-level posts (like, posts are almost always serious, except around April Fools day) so I’m not sure this would make much difference. (Also I think adding more tags would make the UI more cluttered so I’m hesitant to encourage that.)