Jyte should let everyone add tags to claims

Yes, please. I keep forgetting to tag my own, and watch them sink without a ripple.

a claims tag strength could even then be non-boolean, and based on the relevant creds of taggers.

Agreeing with Vynce - it should be possible to assign tags (and almost everything else) with a value.
To make this useful - each user should have the ability to ignore tags that don't clear their cred thresholds.

I agree that something like what Vynce suggests is the right thing. Otherwise every claim will eventually end up with every tag and it will all be a confusing mush.

Agree with Vynce's idea in theory but find it hard to see how it would be implemented properly.

It's a terrible idea.  That would require a level of responsibility that doesn't exist on the internet.  So the feature would be quickly abused — wreaking havoc with the way claims are linked together.

I think the jyte programmers were smart to pass on that one.

You can do this on last.fm, and it seems to work fine. Only the top few tags show up. It seems to work well. I'd love to be able to tag a claim as cool.

It's a great idea. Yes please.

It's two different models. Jyte is like flickr, only the creator can tag his stuff. In del.icio.us, everyone tags everything. I don't think one is better then the other, but switching models is icky.

Perhaps we would have a middle ground and let jyte users tag their vote?

Flickr actually lets you specify who can add notes and tags to your photos. Default is "your contacts" but it can be set to you, your friends/family, your contacts or any users.

Perhaps Jyte could allow similar control of who is allowed to tag one's claims. I'd personally want to allow any user to tag my claims, but I can imagine an option of "all my contacts, plus anyone with tag police cred of at least 5". :-)

No no no. Don't be touchin' my claim. The tag is as much a part of it as the claim itself (a la Jonathan).

Maybe... separate the user tags from the claimant tags?

Kara and fmoo:

You shouldn't be disagreeing.
Everyone should be able to add tags to any claim, and yes, I agree, user's tags (other than the claimant's) should be visible ONLY to themselves, and no one else.

Maybe a bonus feature of the claimant having "recommended tags" should they come back to edit them later?

Jyte should allow my contacts to add tags to my claims, just like Flickr.

Tags could be something we vote on, like the claim itself.

Please tag this claim whatcouldpossiblygowrong, goodluckwiththat, ronpaul, firstpost, python, zimbabwe, omgponies!!!

tags should be able to be added and taken away by anyone
and it should be easy to undo anyones edit of the tags on a claim
like wikipedia
which works wounderfully

Hahah! I love it! Just when I start to think you aren't goofing around, you say something like "wikipedia, which works wounderfully"

Congratulations, my good man. That was quite well played.

wikipedia is aparently as acurate as any print encyclopidia
and is a good source of trustworthy information

First of all, most of the tags I put on my claims have nothing to do with the claim, and is kind of my way of adding little messages that should in fact be in the description of the claim. Secondly, why would someone want to add false tags to another person's claim? There's no fun in that, and I'd like to think the jyte community is mature enough not to do such things. We are not like the majority of the Internet like Knappster thinks. Personally I like the idea of them being entirely editable, Wiki style. Being able to add restrictions on who can edit them sounds good too.