Re: [mb-experts] Clouds

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Don Redman wrote:

> AFAIU delicious, flickr, and folksonomy in general it is crucial to bind the 
> tag to the user who _uses_ it. A tag is not simply "this element is tagged as 
> 'xxx'" but "user 'xy' tagged this element as 'xxx'". this way you can filter 
> tag by just using
> - your tags
> - everybody's tags
> - everybodys tags except from people you consider "spammers"
>
> And this makes a moderation system obsolete.

Erm, no. It doesn't replace the moderation system. All it provides is 
various views upon the data, one of which *might* provide authoritive 
information. Look at the mess freedb is in, because different people want 
their album to look a particular way.

Steve (inhouseuk)

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