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Comment by anonu | Hacker News Reader

There should be a tagging system

Great idea, I like the lobste.rs tagging system. How to avoid abuse when you have so many users is a hard problem though IMO.

I really don't want to pile even more work on dang's shoulders :-)

You could allow for community tagging and upvote/downvote on tags, which would reduce the moderation requirement (hopefully).

#Education #Debate #Question #Community-Notice #Hyphens-verusnullspace #InsideJokes/=Inside-Jokes #Entrepreneur-Spotlight #Sponsored #New-Tech #Old-Tech #Complaint #Thread-Update #Another-List

I think I've seen such a system work well in a few instances, but it needs to both incentivize good tagging and disincentivize mis-tagging. The latter needs to be something that actually hurts users, makes them feel the real pain as a consequence of mis-tagging. I'm not sure how to generalize that from the examples I have in mind, which are all... porn drawings sites. Imagine being into a specific fetish, enjoying yourself clicking through new pics, only to get that one mis-tagged pic that should have been tagged with dirty-old-men but wasn't...

Like Slashdot.Org?

That would make moderation even harder. The set of tags needs to be hard coded, and perhaps giving some tagging privileges to high karma users. (I have decently high karma, so I might be biased.)

Upvoting/downvoting tags would encourage memeing and create even more spam. Steam has community tags w/ voting, and sometimes you find very hard games tagged with "Relaxing".

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