WTF Feature Request: Tags to replace: Filed Under (or not).
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I like the discourse tagger plugin and I think it would be amusing to have it TDWTF because the categories are narrow (they are not fun) and when I look at the lack of tags and the category constraints taking place, I sense the dark forces of social engineering via Stack Exchange have crawled into discourse when it comes to categories and subcategories and tags. (I love saying social engineering).
Convo of concerned discourse people might have looked something like like this: "Look guys, people are idiots and they don't know how to use categories right to begin with and now they want us to add one level of subcategories to increase the WTF...Whatever, I don't care....let's just do it...But seriously, It's either gonna be 'general', or it is 'meta', or it is 'bug', but it can't be all three. AMIRITE? And have I told you how much slept I lost when idiots create tags on Stack Overflow? OMFG, does WWW have to be a tag?! There are like 20 submissions assigned to that POS....Seriously, can it get anymore ambiguous?!?! Ok, we are out of time everyone. Whose taking notes on all this shit. Hey can one of you interns set a google calendar thing so we can talk about the WWW tag? Set aside 3 hours... no 6 hours, because we have a ginger in Australia and a trout fish in Toronto that might be still asleep or eating dinner or whatever."
So, like polls and like spoiler alerts (which are kinda stupid but kind of fun). Let's have some tagger action here to replace:
So I am requesting that people be allowed to add one tag or two or 50 tags that have purpose or no purpose. And search significance can go out the window in the name of science...And tags can be reused or never even found again. And make it a PERK at trust level
32 ...PERKY PERKS are like perky tats!See my mock up below for an explicit examples of tags:
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We are really not ready with this tagger plugin.
@eviltrout is planning to work on it for a bit leading to v1, we have an open customer request for it.
That said, tags are something that people get wrong all the time, allowing arbitrary tagging will be heavily abused here, ungated.
Filed under: I don't think people think of this as a tag. It's more of a idiosyncratic inside joke
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That said, tags are something that people get wrong all the time
Filed under: We take pride in getting tags wrong.
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Sam, 'getting it wrong' is precisely the idea.
Can someone find a picture Peter Sellers as the president giving the Ruskies the Bomber coordiates and General Turgidson's response from the Dr. Strangelove movie? I'm having trouble on my smart phone.
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allowing arbitrary tagging will be heavily abused here
In TDWTF forum? Don't know what might have given you that idea...Filed under: I wonder how prominent "sarcsam" would show in a TDWTF tag cloud...
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'getting it wrong' is precisely the idea.
We could create tags for all memes . It would be even less work to invoke a meme.
Filled under: all ze memes are belong to us
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So it is going to be a native feature of discourse? If so, lightyear on meta.discourse must be excited. It's a hardened plugin deserving of integration.
Now about the abuse/ungated comment. This is discourse we are talking about, right? It's very notion evokes disruption. So please keep up appearances.
And while we are talking about fun lunatic stuff to add...are we going to have badges here? Because, I haven't got my: 'rational troll' badge or 'kitten picture abuser' badge, nor my 'I know more about the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy than other people do' badge or a simple lame-ass bronze 'valued contributer' badge.
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are we going to have badges here? Because, I haven't got my: 'rational troll' badge or 'kitten picture abuser' badge, nor my 'I know more about the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy than other people do' badge or a simple lame-ass bronze 'valued contributer' badge.
Badges badges badges badges badges badges badges badges badges mushroom MUSHROOM!
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Badges badges badges badges badges badges badges badges badges mushroom MUSHROOM!
*Ahem* http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/daily-rate-limit-on-number-of-likes/369/24
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Ah, but that was over half a month ago…
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Ah, but that was over half a month ago…
You need to kill me, then wait 70 years before you can use that joke I'm afraid.
(a) In General. — Copyright in a work created on or after January 1, 1978, subsists from its creation and, except as provided by the following subsections, endures for a term consisting of the life of the author and 70 years after the author's death.
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Alternatively, you could amend one of your older posts and then sue me for copyright infringement...
I CALL A TRUCE!
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You need to kill me, then wait 70 years before you can use that joke I'm afraid.
Only if you're the copyright holder.
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Badges badges badges badges badges badges badges badges badges mushroom MUSHROOM!
SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE.You sir have made me literally laugh out loud.
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SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE.
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You trolls derailed my shit.
Filed Under: Stealing my lol thunder.
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You fucking trolls derailed my shit.
Eager to serve.
Filed Under: Stealing my lol thunder.
Oh... sorry, here, have a funny hat as a consolation:
Filed under: Filed under, What crowbar?
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That said, tags are something that people get wrong all the time, allowing arbitrary tagging will be heavily abused here, ungated.
It is not up to you to decide how we, being the community, use tags.
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Unless we're 'doing it wrong'.
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Any developer telling his users that they are doing it wrong deserves to be slapped on the back of the head with a rolled-up newspaper. Hard.
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What if they legitimately are doing it wrong, like trying to use a tool for a purpose for which it was not even remotely designed?
For example, a forum software developer telling the users that they're doing it wrong when they want to turn it into a helpdesk system? (Bearing in mind things like the implied privacy options, the lack of topic/ticket specific information like status and so on) Would that be inappropriate? Or is it the developer's fault for not building a ticket system as part of the forum software?
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For example, a forum software developer telling the users that they're doing it wrong when they want to turn it into a helpdesk system? (Bearing in mind things like the implied privacy options, the lack of topic/ticket specific information like status and so on) Would that be inappropriate? Or is it the developer's fault for not building a ticket system as part of the forum software?
+1
Since this post contains multiple layers of meta commentary I feel that one like cannot account for them all and feel the need to express my genuine appreciation for all of them.
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I bet there's another layer of meta commentary to add to it; I used to be a forum software developer, and I wrote a helpdesk add-on for that forum software, and said forum software uses that helpdesk on its own site for the people who want 1:1 support.
And in hindsight so many of my design decisions were WTFworthy though at the time I was emulating the previous helldesk.
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That's a fair point, but there is a difference between misuse of a piece of software (for which it clearly was never intended, which is like trying to empty a swimming pool using a domestic vacuum cleaner) or using a piece of software within the technical boundaries, but outside of the authors original intentions.
It's not up to the developers to tell us how we should use a feature such as tags. That is up to the community and up to the board's management (i.e. the TDWTF team).
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That's a fair point, but there is a difference between misuse of a piece of software (for which it clearly was never intended, which is like trying to empty a swimming pool using a domestic vacuum cleaner) or using a piece of software within the technical boundaries, but outside of the authors original intentions.
But where does SSDS sit in relation to that line?
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SSDS was used completely in accordance with the developer's intentions!
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SSDS was used completely in accordance with the developer's intentions!
Mostly due to the fact that it was only ever used by the developer himself, but still.
Filed under: "developer" is a big word in this case
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For example, a forum software developer telling the users that they're doing it wrong when they want to turn it into a helpdesk system?
What about using forum software as a bug-tracker...?
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I've done it... but it was only for my own list of things that needed doing rather than a public bug tracker for a forum system.
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It is not up to you to decide how we, being the community, use tags.
Hi, I was not deciding, I was speculating
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What about using forum software as a bug-tracker...?
Bug trackers are a barrier to reading.
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Hi, I was not deciding, I was speculating
That was not how I interpreted your post, a disadvantage of text only communication. But still, you shouldn't be concerned with how tags are used on this community. That's up to the community and its admins to work out.
Bug trackers are a barrier to reading.
What I like about bug trackers is that they focus on bugs (and tasks, etc.) and do a rather good job at it (also from a management point of view), whereas forum software has different priorities. But that's a matter of preference, of course.
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But still, you shouldn't be concerned with how tags are used on this community.
Not fair, you can't judge what I should and should not worry about.
Filed under: This brown dot on my knee is looking much bigger today
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It's certainly a barrier to reading the source!