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tomos:
Just be warned, that when you allow people to tag stuff with anything they want, things like this can happen.
-app103 (December 23, 2010, 05:02 PM)
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the best solution is to manually edit and adapt the tags to your website style by allowing moderators or super moderators to edit them somehow.
-adi_barb (December 27, 2010, 05:18 PM)
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I wonder how Quora get on with their "Unorganised Questions" invitation to tag untagged questions.
I havent fully figured it out - it will search for your tag and suggest ones that are similar alphabetically. But then it seems to accept the tag even if it wasnt there before. Presumably new tags get moderated. Then they have what they call a context.

(I cant even find the tags in Quora. They show me a very short - & narrow - list of "Suggested Topics" - based on one topic/person I looked at. Apart from that, they suggest that I "Find People to Follow" and invite me to look at my gmail contacts.
Odd IMO.)

app103:
Just be warned, that when you allow people to tag stuff with anything they want, things like this can happen.
-app103 (December 23, 2010, 05:02 PM)
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the best solution is to manually edit and adapt the tags to your website style by allowing moderators or super moderators to edit them somehow.
-adi_barb (December 27, 2010, 05:18 PM)
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I wonder how Quora get on with their "Unorganised Questions" invitation to tag untagged questions.
I havent fully figured it out - it will search for your tag and suggest ones that are similar alphabetically. But then it seems to accept the tag even if it wasnt there before. Presumably new tags get moderated. Then they have what they call a context.

(I cant even find the tags in Quora. They show me a very short - & narrow - list of "Suggested Topics" - based on one topic/person I looked at. Apart from that, they suggest that I "Find People to Follow" and invite me to look at my gmail contacts.
Odd IMO.)
-tomos (December 28, 2010, 05:18 PM)
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Quora tags are moderated by the community first. Anyone can edit, Wikipedia style. All edits are kept in the history for an item. If a user thinks a tag is inappropriate, he can remove it. If someone removes a tag and someone else thinks it was a good tag, they can reverse the edit to put it back. Right now Quora is very good at self policing because they have a lot of members that care about the quality of the site. They will even fix grammar and spelling mistakes in your answers! I don't know if this will work long term for them, though, especially if there ends up being more people that mess things up (intentionally or not) than people that care.

To see a tag page on Quora, enter a tag name in the box at the top and watch what happens. If the tag already exists, you'll see it in the auto-list. To see even more, click "search" at the bottom of that list.

tomos:
To see a tag page on Quora, enter a tag name in the box at the top and watch what happens. If the tag already exists, you'll see it in the auto-list. To see even more, click "search" at the bottom of that list.
-app103 (December 29, 2010, 01:49 AM)
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Yes, the search though is for the topic you entered - there's nowhere you can get an overview and browse - I presume they simply have too many tags.

if you add a tag to a question, you are asked if you want to make it the "context" - I presume this is like making it the main tag.

It's an interesting site but I wish it were more accessible - that I could simply browse topics/tags. Because I initially looked at a couple of questions about food (I think I clicked to 'follow' one foodie persons posts), it now only shows me questions about food, and only suggests food related topics... I know I could search for e.g. Software but I'm not looking for anything specific - I'm just thinking out loud here really...

app103:
There is also the trending topics page and the browse page (which has a number of topics listed at the top). Browsing the questions at the bottom of the page can lead to more topics, too.

If you keep hitting those on a regular basis, you are bound to come up with some topics to follow, a little at a time. Might be best not to overwhelm yourself with 1000's of topics at once and add them gradually as you come across them. You could also add me or browse the list on my profile (I am following 200+ topics).

The site is an adventure and a treasure hunt, to say the least....bring a shovel and dig.

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