Tagging?

[randomling]

I'm thinking about tagging posts - specifically the action-suggestion posts that we've already started generating (yay!).

I think we need a) a tagging scheme and b) a roster of people/mods who would be willing to tag entries. For this purpose I think it might make sense to restrict tagging to mods only - that way we can curate the tags a bit more easily.

So:

a) Tagging scheme
I'm thinking that we could have, for example, tags like:
req: personal info
req: mental
req: physical

location: wherever (obviously for in-person events these things will be probably town-specific, which means we might end up with quite a few if the place gets busy, but we have a 1000-tag limit so we don't need to worry too much about proliferation yet)

current for things that either don't have a deadline or haven't passed it yet

Plus an "action" tag just to differentiate those posts from... discussion posts like this, people's questions, general advice, etc.

Any other thoughts on what tags we might use?

b) Tagging mods

I think that if we go with my method here, we'd be looking at two tasks for tag mods

- go through the new/untagged posts and adding appropriate tags, maybe once a day
- go through the "current" tag and check for stuff that's passed its deadline, expired, the link is now broken, whatever - probably less often than daily, once a week might be fine for this?

So the question here is who'd be willing to do that? If you don't know how to do it technically I'd be happy to describe or hop on IM to explain! (I'm not generally up for Skype or other voice or video calls at the moment, sorry.)

ETA: I'm an idiot! I didn't mean that one person has to do the tag-modding every day for the rest of time! I'm looking for a group of us who can do the modding and hopefully cover for each other in times of sickness/exhaustion/overwhelm/etc so we are each only doing one every few days. (Hopefully less potential for burnout that way.)

Thanks folks!

Comments

[redsixwing]

I'm reliably on and would be happy to tag things. n_n While I can't promise daily, I'm usually on most days and can generally notify of long(er) absences.

[randomling]

That's great, thank you!

It occurs to me that I'm an idiot and didn't spell out quite what I intended in the original post - I'm not expecting one person to take this on every day forever. I'm hoping for a stable of tagging mods, hopefully with a small handful on standby in case someone is sick/exhausted/busy, so each person only has to do a day every so often.

[redsixwing]

*s* I thought that might be what you're after. I hope the community can make it happen!

[azurelunatic]

For location tagging, can we ask that very local tags (town) be accompanied by state and country tags so filtering will work better? For example, folks not in the US could filter out US-specific things (including say a protest in New York City) with one tag, rather than adding all the city tags as they occur.

[randomling]

Ah yes that's a very good idea! Thanks. :D

[nanila]

Just to be clear, would that look like the following, e.g.

location: USA: NY: New York City

or would you do it as

location: USA
location: NY
location: NYC

on a particular entry?

[azurelunatic]

The

location: USA
location: NY
location: NYC

format would let people not in the US block out all USA-specific things by filtering out one tag, rather than having to filter out all of:

location: USA: NY: New York City
location: USA: NY: Upstate
location: USA: CA: Los Angeles
... etc, etc, etc.

[nanila]

Gotcha, thank you!

[nanila]

Perhaps we could also convert "current" to "expired" when deadlines have passed?

I'd be happy to be a tag mod, but not every day. I'm often not online at all at weekends.

[randomling]

Ah, perfect!

And thank you! I'm an idiot and didn't quite spell out what I meant properly in the post - I'm not picturing handing this off to one person to be responsible for it every day forever! I'm more picturing a stable of mods, hopefully with a handful on standby in case someone is sick or exhausted or otherwise preoccupied, so that each person only has to do a day every so often.

[nanila]

No worries, I thought that's probably what you meant but I figured I'd be clear on my availability. :)