QF8, That sounds a lot like John Dvorak's comment that "you suck" would be the most popular tag ever (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1819101,00.asp)!
~Scott~ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Quintus Frimschlowder VIII Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 4:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [delicious-discuss] Feature request: Tag myself? If a system is implemented whereby a user can tag another user, there will no doubt be many people who will make it their first goal to tag every user with "stinks". -QF8 http://scatterbrain.raygunarmy.com/ On 6/2/05, Nitin Borwankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, people tagging other people is the basis of a reputation > system isn't it? > > People tagging other people seems like a looser and wider version of > an ebay rating systems or similar systems such as advogato peer > ratings. > > A related app I built for a non profit (Nautilus Group > www.nautilus.org) allowed them to decide how to create working groups > when hosting seminars. Nautilus has a database of a large number of > movers and shakers in nuclear non-proliferation and they host seminars > where people solve real problems blocking progress in this and other > areas. > > The database of people is annotated by Nautilus staffers with comments > like "A likes to work with B" or "C doesn't appear to get along with > D" and so on. They use these as hints to create groups in their > seminars. > > This app is, in effect, an interpersonal tagging system. In this case > the tags are supplied by third parties, but the tags carry > approximately, the opinions of the primary actors. > > > People tagging other people with "opinion tags" or "impression tags" > seems to me to create a network of illusions. But we may choose to > share our friends illusions and this may be useful, or not. > > Agreed that implementing this is likely to open a massive can of > grief-worms. > > Nitin Borwankar. > > On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 15:02:07 -0400 (EDT), "Joshua Schachter" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > Seems like a good way to be a griefer. > > > > -j > > > > On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Michael Newton wrote: > > > > > or, maybe all the tags that anyone has stuck on that user. i think > > > this is a great feature idea. > > > > > > M. > > > > > > On 6/2/05, Matt MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Gotcha makes sense. So maybe it'd be good have that as part of > > >> the user interface... when I go to a users homepage it displays > > >> the tags that the user has provided for that URI. > > >> > > >> -matt > > >> > > >> On 6/2/05, Clay Shirky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>> I'm wondering if it would be possible to treat users as any > > >>>> other URI. > > >>> > > >>> Why not just do exactly that -- I just tagged > > >>> "http://del.icio.us/cshirky"; with 'bald impoverished unreliable' > > >>> -- what other kind of operation do you need. > > >>> > > >>> -c > > >>> > > >>>> I'd like to be able to tag myself, male, husband, > > >>>> software_developer, java, photographer... This way I could > > >>>> provide meta data about me beyond the tags that I add to a > > >>>> social bookmarking system. > > >>>> > > >>>> I think this would provide some context to the URI tags that I > > >>>> am adding to the system. It would allow me to not only find > > >>>> URL's by tag that I am interested in but allow me to narrow the > > >>>> scope of that tag to users that are treating that tag in the > > >>>> same context. > > >>>> > > >>>> Thoughts? > > >>>> > > >>>> -matt > > >>>> _______________________________________________ > > >>>> discuss mailing list > > >>>> [email protected] > > >>>> http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > >>>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> discuss mailing list > > >> [email protected] > > >> http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > > > discuss mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- > Nitin Borwankar > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
