[Tagdb] Multi-Word Tags Vs Single Word Tags

Colin Viebrock cviebrock at tucows.com
Fri Apr 7 14:29:19 GMT 2006


> For instance if I have to
> tag a document with tags java and rmi, I would rarely go ahead and tag 
> it as
> 'java_rmi' but rather I would tag it as 'java' and 'rmi'. I would use
> 'java_rmi' only incase the two words are inseparable and have no mean
> indepently.
>
> Now with multi-word tags users can use entire phrases like 'a trip to
> london' to tag items which they would have tagged as 'london' 'trip' 
> incase
> of single word tags. This makes the tagged item difficult to discover,
> making the tag and thus the user to tagged item relationship non-social
> (quite opposite to what a tag is supposed to do).

Yeah, but what about someone who wants to tag a document with "hot dog"?

- Colin



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