| | A Social Life » Cleaning up the tag soup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Those people don’t know the suggested tag, so they choose their own way to search, and most likely they’re going to have to try several tag searches before they find the content – that is, if all event participants even managed to use the same tag. |
 | | There are two remaining solutions to the tag mess, assuming you’re sticking with standard methods of tag browsing: 1) re-tagging content later based on observed usage, and 2) tag equivalence (or at least tag migration.) #1 isn’t going to happen, so let’s focus on the more practical #2. |
 | | If I tag a resource “foo” there needs to be at least one other person that tags it “foo” as well before the network can draw a conclusion that everyone else tagged the resource “bar” so for me (and the other person) “foo == bar”. |
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