On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Lije Carpenter wrote: > As someone who uses a similar system for some of my own tags, and has seen it > all over certain communities, the downsides to "foo: bar" are as follows: > > 1. When entering tags manually, it means instead of typing, say, "robert > redford" and having it come up as an autofill after getting to "rob", you > have to type "actor: rob" or "producer: rob" or "director: rob" to get the > same result. And if it's someone who comes up under multiple categories, you > have to rinse and repeat every time.
If it were set up so that using the colon created an automatic hieriarchy, it could be done so that typing "f" would bring up your f parent tags (foo) and then typing "b" would bring up foo:bar, foo:bling, foo:baby. > 2. It can be anti-intuitive for people looking through a large > set of tags to look for "foo" first rather than just looking > for "bar". No offence, but if you use the right foo, it should be easier. If you have "actors" as a category it means I don't need to look through all 300 of your tags to find Adrian Pasdar, Robert Redford, and Zachary Quinto. And if the parent level displays clearly, it will be obvious where to look. **************************************************************** Azalais Aranxta (~malfoy) ataniell93 on LiveJournal and Vox http://groups.yahoo.com/group/malfoymadness "I know the true world, and you know I do. But we needn't let it think we all bow down." --Christopher Fry _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
