Timeline for Excess tags for related topics?
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| Sep 15, 2012 at 8:49 | comment | added | Eyal | I agree with this last comment by @Russell. And I'm one of the people adding the bouldering tag to questions that are general enough to apply to bouldering as well. My intention was, as Russel said- to be able to make it easy for someone (like me) to find the questions which are relevant to bouldering. | |
| May 30, 2012 at 17:52 | comment | added | Russell Steen Mod | I would comment to remember that tags aren't there to make sure our site is all sorted and neatly segregated and such. We're not a library ;) Tags are there to help people find answers. Those people are quite likely not experts. The other use for tags is so that people can follow topics. The question for a tag is not "is this question unique to bouldering?" but rather "does this question apply to bouldering?" | |
| May 24, 2012 at 13:56 | history | edited | MaskedPlant | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 23, 2012 at 18:20 | comment | added | Mr.Wizard |
I just posted a question on the main site partially to act as a test case; please take a look. I think there will be plenty of use for a sport-climbing tag as it is quite popular.
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| May 23, 2012 at 18:15 | comment | added | MaskedPlant | @Mr.Wizard Thanks! The only real downside that I see here is that the sport tag would be rarely used, as most of the equipment used in sport is used in Trad, so the only sport questions would largely be about climb locations. Another consideration would be combining Sport and Trad. | |
| May 23, 2012 at 18:08 | comment | added | Mr.Wizard | I like what you propose (second form), and since you have 3 years of climbing instructor experience I think you're as close to an expert as this site currently has. I moved my Accept to this answer. | |
| May 23, 2012 at 18:07 | vote | accept | Mr.Wizard | ||
| May 23, 2012 at 18:06 | history | edited | MaskedPlant | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 23, 2012 at 17:59 | comment | added | MaskedPlant |
@Mr.Wizard I'd go one of 2 ways. Either have one all encompassing tag Rock-Climbing and no subset tags, or all subset tags and only allow them to be used when the question specifically pertains to that subject. In this second form, a question about a carabiner is not specific to any one subset so it could only be tagged Rock-Climbing but a question about nuts could be tagged Traditional (trad).
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| May 23, 2012 at 17:53 | comment | added | Mr.Wizard | Since as you state bouldering is a subset of (rock)climbing it seems to me that it the specific tag should be reserved for questions that specifically relate to bouldering. Doing otherwise strikes me as analogous to slapping a "trad-climbing" tag on any question about carabiners, simply because carabiners are used in traditional rock climbing. As someone with experience in the subject how would you organize the tags? | |
| May 23, 2012 at 17:45 | history | answered | MaskedPlant | CC BY-SA 3.0 |