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HN works because it is simple to use. Please keep it that way. Tagging introduces a whole new set of issues and off topic discussions. People are going to debate semantics, taxonomy and the proper labels for each and every thread. Every time someone dies, there are a few users asking the mods to put up the black bar. Tags are going to be much worse.

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Agreed. The only way I can think around it is if the tagging is automated somehow. Shouldn't be too difficult to have some intelligent system. That way people don't argue with people.

People would just argue about the rules and logic embedded in the tagging algorithm.

Yeah, but as long as it isn't humans fighting humans I would consider that a better place for now.

Agreed. The words themselves in a story are the tags. You just need to do some kind of text vector index. For example: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/textsearch.html

I believe StackExchange had resolved this with moving such discussions to Meta.

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