Oscar J Carlton IV should give up the singular-tag crusade and make all his noun tags plural.
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Oscar J Carlton IV
on March 08, 2007
Looks like claims (176) is beating claim (151) as of this writing. It'd be something to kill time while I'm waiting for more inspiration, unless there's a better solution in the works...
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no! resist! singular is just better, period. it makes more sense in both cases.
You might want to make a concession and turn politic into politics, but otherwise I recommend saying the name of the tag out loud in cred form.
E.g. Wow, JimmyJimShabado has a lot of 'silly name' cred.
I've got your singular noun tag back, OC.
Well, that's the top three right here; I feel better already.
i also have formulated some of my reasoning in this related claim.
We're thinking about doing some sort of stemming on tags. It's not a trivial project, however.
How do the other networks do it? It seems like this is a problem across the industry - there might be a product in there somewhere.
AFAICT most sites are just waiting to see if the better tags to win out. If there's momentum, there should be an advantage to tagging with the majority, eventually. Suggesting other tags wouldn't hurt, of course.
Vynce convinced me.
Livejournal has a list of guidelines on its tagging boxes. Theirs are: use plurals of nouns and gerund forms of verbs.
I'm all about the programmatic solution though. With the stemming we can just pick a canonical form and go with it. We'd probably need to create a "tagriculture" section so that people can offer definitions for tags, split off tags from a stem, etc.
LiveJournal does not have a cred system. The desire to make cred and tags match makes this much more difficult.
Especially as there are cases, as Ben pointed out, where "writer" and "writers" cred can imply very different things. Subtle distinctions are going to be a real nuisance.
Rorek, I've just noticed that you haven't voted on my early claim about how to deal with this, and I'm very curious what your reaction to this idea was.
I'm not exactly sure how it applies to the plural/singular problem.