> This may be more than you want to get into here, but I am curious
> to understand what sort of "bias" you are afraid of. What negative
> effects might arise - very concretely - if users were directed to a
> posting form that included tags someone else had submitted?...
>
> In particular, I am curious whether you are concerned about "the
> relationship of users to their tags?" I.e., are you concerned that
> users would "not tag as well" in some sense, if they were not
> tagging all of their posts themselves?...
I generally have little to no faith that publishers are going to
properly tag their stuff.
This begs a distinction between "proper" and "improper" tagging.
One thing that's impressed me is how variable people's tagging practices are - leaving me unsure as to what "improper" tagging would look like.
Arguably, allowing publishers to tag their stuff would decrease tagging creativity, but it might increase the user base, too, which could increase creativity....
Publishers want distribution, but tagging
in delicious is intended for users to remember things
Interesting. This is only part of it for me - and probably the lesser part.
I value del.icio.us at least as much as a way of finding things I didn't know to look for - i.e., as an alternative to search - as I value it as a mnemonic tool.
-- two things
that are distinctly in tension with each other. So I want to cut that
behavior off immediately.
Fair enough.
But for the record, the context in which this question arose was NumSum.com. I wanted to post a spreadsheet I had developed to my own del.icio.us account, and was surprised when their "[Post] to del.icio.us" link didn't inherit the name or tags I had given the 'sheet.
Tks for your reply, Joshua.
Matthew
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