Tags, Contexts and Conversation

[jducoeur]

A conversation pointer: I've just made a post over in CommYou that some folks here might be interested in. Basically, I'm mulling over the concepts of tagging and context, as they relate to conversations -- it's all still rather vague, and I'm looking for any insights and opinions people may have. Anyone ought to be able to follow that link (although the look and feel may be a bit crappy in old browsers); if you don't have a CommYou account, feel free to comment here...

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Re: part 2

[jducoeur]

people use different tags, and some people's posts on X are interesting while others' are not

Oh, sure -- what I really mean is that I want to be able to combine tags in with my other filters. For example, fond though I am of dglenn, I often would prefer to put his quote postings in an entirely different filter from his diary entries.

Indeed, one possible UI element is, on the line where I say whether or not to follow a particular friend, I can select from their tags as part of that -- someone might want to specifically follow just your daf bits, or "ignore everything this person tags as TMI".

(Another reason is that it all developed organically over years but you can never take a feature away without causing a ruckus.)

Yeah -- I have to admit that one motivation for trying to cram in a lot of wild experimentation on CommYou right now is that it becomes a lot more difficult and dangerous down the road. While I only have a couple dozen users, it's still feasible to say, "Okay, that was a dead end" and take it out...