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Certainly lots of uses abound. One I would like to see is tagging threads and posts as having historical or cultural value, such as the infamous Paco thread
Yep, I've asked myself about official or de facto bulletin boards or "neverending threads", and specifically if there were a list of such nodes and threads somewhere. If a tagging system were in place, the list would be automatically returned by selecting the tag "historical", or "cultural". I am also thinking that one should choose how the tags should behave in a hierarchical structure like that of PM: presumably different sections would automatically apply one, e.g. in SoPW nodes would automatically be tagged as "questions", and as I said, there would be a predefined set of "official" tags about the subject matter, e.g. "web", "sort", "optimization" to choose from, along with the freedom to add user defined ones. (Actually it would be nice to have a means to make the official set grow out of choices from the community, possibly with the ability to create aliases: e.g. if general consensus converges on "optimization", and someone uses "performance", then the former could become official, and the latter an alias to it.) Also, they should be probably inherited from posts to replies, with the possibility of being changed too... thus there would be threads and single nodes tags. Oh, and another idea: tags could be applied automatically also as triggered by special events, e.g. if a node ends up in the daily best list or is frontpaged, then it could be marked as "best" or "frontpage" respectively. This would help people searching good quality stuff.
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