Until six months ago there was a tag cloud in the sidebar, but it was dominated by a few tags. In particular, in discussion “sequence rerun” was maximal size and everything else was minimal. This was discussed and it was probably removed for this reason. Or maybe it was remove to make room for other stuff in the sidebar, in which case it could be brought back just in the editor.
In general, I think tags are only viable with a class of sub-administrators who fix them. Admins on LW do fix them when asked, but doing so systematically may be too much work for the few admins.
Added months later: Here are archives of the old tag clouds for main and discussion.
Having all users have the ability to edit tags, at least all users over a certain karma threshold, sounds to me like a good way to have this get done without subadmins. So what am I missing?
Sure, a karma threshold works great for stack overflow (though it has lots of other details to encourage the OP to get it right). But I don’t think eliminating the ability to pick the subadmins saves you much programming effort. (It might be worth it to save administration effort.) Also, you need a change log to detect abuse of tags. SO does this by putting tag edits on the main change log.
Until six months ago there was a tag cloud in the sidebar, but it was dominated by a few tags. In particular, in discussion “sequence rerun” was maximal size and everything else was minimal. This was discussed and it was probably removed for this reason. Or maybe it was remove to make room for other stuff in the sidebar, in which case it could be brought back just in the editor.
In general, I think tags are only viable with a class of sub-administrators who fix them. Admins on LW do fix them when asked, but doing so systematically may be too much work for the few admins.
Added months later: Here are archives of the old tag clouds for main and discussion.
Having all users have the ability to edit tags, at least all users over a certain karma threshold, sounds to me like a good way to have this get done without subadmins. So what am I missing?
Sure, a karma threshold works great for stack overflow (though it has lots of other details to encourage the OP to get it right). But I don’t think eliminating the ability to pick the subadmins saves you much programming effort. (It might be worth it to save administration effort.) Also, you need a change log to detect abuse of tags. SO does this by putting tag edits on the main change log.
Thanks. I thought I remembered something like that, but I couldn’t find it.
Pity they didn’t just move it to a sub-page. (Maybe link to it from the edit article view, next to the line that lets you add tags, at the bottom.)