I found the current karma-style relevance to be surprisingly intuitive. My impression of tags is that the main problem is figuring out what is allowed to be a tag or not—I’m not sure how this was done, but the tags seem to be good.
I think “top” posts can be some combination of high karma, high tag relevance, and curated.
There is the additional problem of “Meditations on Moloch” was read by a lot of people, so it will get high karma and high tag relevance, and maybe be curated because it is high quality. This suggests that the multiple choice system is better able to bucket posts.
I think I want any tagging system to be able to separate between posts that use the concept and posts that try and explain the concept. There will not be that many of the later, but they should be prioritized on the tag’s page (there are possibly only 1 or 2, in which case a form of curation but for specific tags might solve the issue).
I found the current karma-style relevance to be surprisingly intuitive. My impression of tags is that the main problem is figuring out what is allowed to be a tag or not—I’m not sure how this was done, but the tags seem to be good.
I think “top” posts can be some combination of high karma, high tag relevance, and curated.
There is the additional problem of “Meditations on Moloch” was read by a lot of people, so it will get high karma and high tag relevance, and maybe be curated because it is high quality. This suggests that the multiple choice system is better able to bucket posts.
I think I want any tagging system to be able to separate between posts that use the concept and posts that try and explain the concept. There will not be that many of the later, but they should be prioritized on the tag’s page (there are possibly only 1 or 2, in which case a form of curation but for specific tags might solve the issue).