On 01/02/2011 08:45 PM, Tobias Knerr wrote: > You seem to believe that people make up their own ontologies in > isolation. But that's observably not true. Mappers /voluntarily/ use > established tags, as long as they know them and don't fundamentally > disagree with them. For obvious reasons: They want their data to be > useful, and this requires applications to understand said data. > > Application developers act in a similar way. They, too, will voluntarily > try to stick to established conventions, for equally obvious reasons: > They want to use the data produced by the mappers, so they need to speak > the same "language". > > This process means that once popular applications actually use some set > of tags, usage will - with few exceptions - gradually become less > varied. And this effect will only become more pronounced with the > current popularization of editor presets.
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