and thus, add categorizations that weren't baked into the Space by the person who designed it.
I think I'd revisit Tags in general, frankly, from what you've said.
But, also, from what you've said: under what circumstances would you want to restrict a Thing into having only ONE ad hoc category? Why would you want to remove a Thing from full participation in the free-for-all-party that is Tagging?
And would you want that to be one per Thing, or one per User/Thing, or whatever? The only model that pops immediately to mind is "Voting" or something like that, and that seems to be a bit of an abuse of the notion of categorization.
To me, it makes more sense, if you wanted to control what people can do with your Things, to say that "this sort of Thing cannot be tagged". And that starts to defeat some of the fun that you have described about Querki.
Looking at it another way: who does a Tag "belong" to? Who owns it? Can I, for example, decide that I want to categorize the photos that you keep in a space as "Lameass" and "Cool"? They are your photos, they are my tags - or is that not the case?
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Date: 2012-11-22 01:51 am (UTC)I think I'd revisit Tags in general, frankly, from what you've said.
But, also, from what you've said: under what circumstances would you want to restrict a Thing into having only ONE ad hoc category? Why would you want to remove a Thing from full participation in the free-for-all-party that is Tagging?
And would you want that to be one per Thing, or one per User/Thing, or whatever? The only model that pops immediately to mind is "Voting" or something like that, and that seems to be a bit of an abuse of the notion of categorization.
To me, it makes more sense, if you wanted to control what people can do with your Things, to say that "this sort of Thing cannot be tagged". And that starts to defeat some of the fun that you have described about Querki.
Looking at it another way: who does a Tag "belong" to? Who owns it? Can I, for example, decide that I want to categorize the photos that you keep in a space as "Lameass" and "Cool"? They are your photos, they are my tags - or is that not the case?