Joshua,
I definitely understand what you're saying, I did not foresee some of
the problems that are now arising.
The one change that I have made to the code, very recently, is that
the default number of tags 'borrowed' is limited to 6, instead of
'Unlimited'. What was happening before was that any tag that was
being used more then once was used by everyone, as you noted with '!
mobiledesktop'. Now, with this change, users are simply tagging their
links with a few relevant tags.
I'm very concerned about flooding del.icio.us with crap, as are you.
I hope the change that I made will help to patch things up. If not,
I'd be willing to work to a sane conclusion.
Thanks.
John Resig
http://ejohn.org/
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On Sep 1, 2005, at 9:17 AM, joshua schachter wrote:
Hi.
I can't quite put my finger on why, exactly, yet, but I'm not
thrilled about "lazy sheep."
We've definitely been burned in the past by alternative posting
interfaces silently corrupting user's data.
I'm also not thrilled about automatic tags and commenting; there
should be some decision on the part of the user. The choice of tags
seems somewhat abusable at the very worst, annoying at the best
(for example, see http://del.icio.us/tag/!mobiledesktop for the
dangers).
I have thought about adding a "read later" sort of quick
bookmarklet, which would add at most a "system:readlater" tag but
nothing else.
My instinct right now is to ban the use of this bookmarklet, unless
anyone has any really good arguments.
Joshua
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