On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Mark Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> And sure, people do.  But I don't know if that's the *right* behavior,
> and I don't think adding it to S2 is particularly advantageous.  If
> you codify that exact behavior then when we actually work on tags, you
> end up either being shoehorned into one particular model or you end up
> having to undo a lot of people's expectations.  Both bad options for
> different reasons.
>
> People use "foo: bar" right now because that's all they can do.
> Allowing them to continue doing that as-is would be fine, but
> codifying it seems like the wrong approach.

What are the other options, then?  One I can imagine is some kind of
hierarchical management tool built into "Manage Tags", where I can
explicitly say that tag "foo" is the parent of tag "bar".  Personally,
that sounds like a nuisance to me, since I would have to visit that
page and clean up my tree on a regular basis as I created new tags,
but perhaps some people might prefer that to using "foo: bar".

What are the downsides to "foo: bar"?

K.

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