Tagging Suggestion
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Smuggins
Just Some Guy
I have a suggestion for tagging stories:
I suggest this as a way to do several things:
1. Take the burden of tagging off of the editors, though they can of course mark initial tags with 1 vote.
2. Allow the community to take ownership of tags and what they mean (see recent discussions of NTR tag on a Cheating story). A Tag Forum Topic allows the community to decide what a tag will mean.
3. Ensure better tagging of chapters, as many eyes will be looking over the tags, and relieve Fakku staff from having to monitor chapters to check for tag suggestions.
- Users can suggest a tag or endorse an existing one (no down votes)
- Tags on a story are not shown until they receive at least 10 votes. Only 'shown' tags count for searching or showing chapters by tag
- When a tag is created, a corresponding forum topic is created(In a tag forum), where the creator can explain the intent and how the tag might be different than other tags.
- When adding/voting on tags, a user can see all submitted tags, whether they have the required votes to be shown
I suggest this as a way to do several things:
1. Take the burden of tagging off of the editors, though they can of course mark initial tags with 1 vote.
2. Allow the community to take ownership of tags and what they mean (see recent discussions of NTR tag on a Cheating story). A Tag Forum Topic allows the community to decide what a tag will mean.
3. Ensure better tagging of chapters, as many eyes will be looking over the tags, and relieve Fakku staff from having to monitor chapters to check for tag suggestions.
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Drifter995
Neko//Night
A new thread for each individual chapter tag would cause a lot of clutter. If there was on thread per chapter thingo where everyone could put their hands in, that might work.
I do agree there should be an ability to suggest a tag, although you then either need to implement a voting system, or implement a group of power to read through and approve said tags, which does take a load off the editors, but then means you need to do a lot more coding, and also more than likely hire some more people to do it. That said though, if you had a system where people got free membership, provided they went through and tagged things, and also approved other tags on a certain number of chapters, that could work out fairly well. Would be interesting trying to find a good requirement though, without making it where you'd want to be paid kinda thing
I do agree there should be an ability to suggest a tag, although you then either need to implement a voting system, or implement a group of power to read through and approve said tags, which does take a load off the editors, but then means you need to do a lot more coding, and also more than likely hire some more people to do it. That said though, if you had a system where people got free membership, provided they went through and tagged things, and also approved other tags on a certain number of chapters, that could work out fairly well. Would be interesting trying to find a good requirement though, without making it where you'd want to be paid kinda thing
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Smuggins
Just Some Guy
I guess it relative, I mean I see 100-200 tags a small number of threads :) Most forums can handle many thousands of topics/posts. I was thinking it would be in specific 'Tags' forum that would be locked to normal posting.
It might take some coding, depending on the forum software (I can't see the source code on my tablet), but if it is off the shelf, most bb systems have hooks for that type of stuff. But if it is home rolled, it might be 40-80 hours to do. It is all how the tags are inserted into the tag table and then altering how they are used. It might even be easier to have a tag suggestion table that eventually writes to the main tag table when a tag is 'approved'.
After commenting on almost 100 chapters, from what I have seen, I think the people who read (subscribers) already take on the prospect of checking for correct tagging. One theory is that there are three categories of internet users: lurkers, commenters, and creators. These show different levels of engagement. If even lurkers are willing to take ownership of a favorite tag and look for applications, then the community should be capable of keeping chapters tagged without any incentives.
It might take some coding, depending on the forum software (I can't see the source code on my tablet), but if it is off the shelf, most bb systems have hooks for that type of stuff. But if it is home rolled, it might be 40-80 hours to do. It is all how the tags are inserted into the tag table and then altering how they are used. It might even be easier to have a tag suggestion table that eventually writes to the main tag table when a tag is 'approved'.
After commenting on almost 100 chapters, from what I have seen, I think the people who read (subscribers) already take on the prospect of checking for correct tagging. One theory is that there are three categories of internet users: lurkers, commenters, and creators. These show different levels of engagement. If even lurkers are willing to take ownership of a favorite tag and look for applications, then the community should be capable of keeping chapters tagged without any incentives.
