Hi Dave I think it's an excellent idea. How difficult can it be for show hosts to come up with a few suitable tags? Apart from anything else, the whole ethos of HPR is that there is no censorship beyond that which the hosts impose upon themselves. Consequently the preparatory workflow should never require "HPR Volunteer" or anybody else to listen to a show before it is released.
Can I suggest also that the form has no default for "Clean" or "Explicit", but the user if forced to select one or the other. That way the hosts will have to actively consider which flag is appropriate. I rarely find that any HPR episode tagged as "Explicit" actually contains anything that even your grandma could find the slightest bit offensive. If episodes are routinely over-classified, the classification loses its usefulness. Cheers Nige (aka Beeza) ________________________________ From: Hpr <hpr-boun...@hackerpublicradio.org> on behalf of Dave Morriss <perl...@autistici.org> Sent: 03 March 2019 22:07 To: hpr@hackerpublicradio.org Subject: [Hpr] A proposed change to the show upload form Hi Everyone, As you'll be aware, there's a field on the form asking for tags for your show. The intention is this metadata will be used to help in searching for show topics once we have redesigned the underlying database. It can currently be used to find stuff on archive.org because I copy our tags there too when I upload shows. If you don't add tags this means that an "HPR Volunteer" has to add them. Mostly that's me; I need to check the show notes, and listen to the show to make (what I hope are) suitable tag choices, and the way I have arranged things I need to do this before uploading the show to archive.org because I need the tags to pass to them. At the time of writing there are five new shows in the queue without tags for which I'll have to be the "tag giver" before archive.org gets them ;-) The proposed change is to make the tag field on the upload form mandatory - in order that show contributors can be reminded to provide tags at upload time. I'd like to get some feedback from the HPR Community about whether this change should go ahead. Please reply to the list. Silence will be interpreted as "sure, fine, go ahead"! Dave _______________________________________________ Hpr mailing list Hpr@hackerpublicradio.org https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhackerpublicradio.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fhpr_hackerpublicradio.org&data=02%7C01%7C%7Ce7be93a9dca74734255808d6a024e652%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636872477671733380&sdata=6JHykHKsrDD751iDTB2n9VPJmqhkbCBVDiEF9%2BnqlLw%3D&reserved=0
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