Tags
When a tag is added to an image, it can't necessarily be removed manually (the up and down ranking done by users is a mechanism for allowing democratically controlled tagging across the board, so when a certain ratio of downvotes exists, the tag is automatically removed). I'm revamping the way this works a bit, because I want to find a nice middleground between people being able to manage their own tags and tags becoming useless as a result. Tags are very important in filter creation, so I want to make sure they work in such a way as to guarantee as much accuracy as possible.
For example, on Toiim's "Gameboy" image, the tag "Boy" may not make sense to the vast majority of users (there are no boy images anywhere, and while it applies in the sense that it's in the name "Gameboy", it doesn't make sense from a tag point of view). Because of this, users can essentially rank that tag out of existence. If I give the artist too much control over addition and removal of tags, there's nothing keeping it from being re-added, which dilutes the pool of appropriately tagged images and undermines the filtering system's point. It's definitely a tough thing to make fair, consistent, and understandable.
About adding one tag at a time, you can add as many at once as you want. Commas separate tags, distinct words in tags are capitalized and concatenated ("one two" becomes "OneTwo"):
"Digital Photography" will add the tag DigitalPhotography
"Digital Photography, Nature" will add both DigitalPhotography and Nature
Deleted User on July 7th, 2010 at 3:25:14 AM
I find the tags confusing all together. You can only add them one at a time and when uploading the default text in the input box is misleading. *whine whine whine*Brian on July 8th, 2010 at 11:31:47 AM
The tags are a little confusing mostly out of lack of documentation.When a tag is added to an image, it can't necessarily be removed manually (the up and down ranking done by users is a mechanism for allowing democratically controlled tagging across the board, so when a certain ratio of downvotes exists, the tag is automatically removed). I'm revamping the way this works a bit, because I want to find a nice middleground between people being able to manage their own tags and tags becoming useless as a result. Tags are very important in filter creation, so I want to make sure they work in such a way as to guarantee as much accuracy as possible.
For example, on Toiim's "Gameboy" image, the tag "Boy" may not make sense to the vast majority of users (there are no boy images anywhere, and while it applies in the sense that it's in the name "Gameboy", it doesn't make sense from a tag point of view). Because of this, users can essentially rank that tag out of existence. If I give the artist too much control over addition and removal of tags, there's nothing keeping it from being re-added, which dilutes the pool of appropriately tagged images and undermines the filtering system's point. It's definitely a tough thing to make fair, consistent, and understandable.
About adding one tag at a time, you can add as many at once as you want. Commas separate tags, distinct words in tags are capitalized and concatenated ("one two" becomes "OneTwo"):
"Digital Photography" will add the tag DigitalPhotography
"Digital Photography, Nature" will add both DigitalPhotography and Nature
Deleted User on July 12th, 2010 at 4:47:56 PM
Thanks Brian. I didn't know that.
pypeworks on June 28th, 2010 at 11:40:04 AM
When editing a previously uploaded image. I noticed it seems you can't alter the tags, or is that what the sets options for? it's kinda confusing could someone please explain.