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akkartik  ·  4301 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A reddit admin on tags

    Agreeing on and articulating what a tag is for sounds dangerously close to moderation. Who decides? Does the first person to use a tag have some autonomy?

After 30 seconds of thought I imagined that profiles would be wiki pages that anyone could edit, with comments for resolving edit wars. Does that seem plausible?

    If I use a tag one way, but lots of other people use it after me in a different way, do they get priority?

Even if we can't satisfy everyone on what a tag means, individuals don't have to follow the collective folksonomy. If I apply 'programming languages' but the community prefers 'programming language', my tag still exists. It's just less salient because it's just me voting for it. What do you think?