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user-inactivated  ·  4301 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A reddit admin on tags

I agree with jedberg's opinion on tags, which is why I'm disappointed that hubski allows following tags again. By providing features to follow tags, hubski is encouraging people to build public communities around tags, which will inevitably decline as their population expands.

When tags are not followable, tags become descriptors that enable blacklist filtering, rather than the nexus of a community. This forces hubskiteers to build their own private communities by following individuals, and private communities are much less susceptible to decline than public communities.