Users tag their own comments and submissions as either “cannon” or “non-cannon”, based on epistemic status
I think it’s a good idea to have a tag dictionary that allows (or maybe even forces) posters to tag their posts with things like “shower thought”, “rant”, “wild guess”, “exploratory digging”, “this is 100% true, I promise”, etc.
It would be awesome to convert these tags to a cannon scheme where “did I post this? I must have been drunk” corresponds to a wooden cannon, a decent post would be a bronze 42-pounder, and an instant classic would get a Big Bertha symbol. Accordingly the users themselves could be classified by the Royal Navy’s rating scheme. Pipsqueaks would be unrated vessels and then we’d go up all the way to the 1st rate ships of the line with over a hundred guns on board.
I also like the idea of lots of tags on content, both from submitters and from others. Who tagged what with what is public, not part of the ratings system, just a way to comment on things without commenting. Like Facebook’s reaction emoji, except not mutually exclusive.
I think it’s a good idea to have a tag dictionary that allows (or maybe even forces) posters to tag their posts with things like “shower thought”, “rant”, “wild guess”, “exploratory digging”, “this is 100% true, I promise”, etc.
It would be awesome to convert these tags to a cannon scheme where “did I post this? I must have been drunk” corresponds to a wooden cannon, a decent post would be a bronze 42-pounder, and an instant classic would get a Big Bertha symbol. Accordingly the users themselves could be classified by the Royal Navy’s rating scheme. Pipsqueaks would be unrated vessels and then we’d go up all the way to the 1st rate ships of the line with over a hundred guns on board.
I also like the idea of lots of tags on content, both from submitters and from others. Who tagged what with what is public, not part of the ratings system, just a way to comment on things without commenting. Like Facebook’s reaction emoji, except not mutually exclusive.