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Welcome to the staging ground for new communities! Each proposal has a description in the "Descriptions" category and a body of questions and answers in "Incubator Q&A". You can ask questions (and get answers, we hope!) right away, and start new proposals.

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I just asked a question and created a new tag without warning.

Is there a kind of "sweeper" to clean up tags that are similar to each other, or some kind of friendly warning like "xyz" is a new tag, have you considered using "uvw" or "abc" instead?

Good thing to be able to have new tags, and a mighty challenge to code proposals to already existing similar ones.

"Some other sitE" is overflowing with a never ending ever growing number of tags.

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Is this intended to be Proposals specific? (2 comments)
Probably not automatable completely (4 comments)
Probably not automatable completely
trichoplax‭ wrote 10 months ago

I agree it's good to tidy up tags but it might be difficult to automate suggestion of similar tags since tags can be a single letter different and mean completely different things, or be completely different and happen to mean the same thing to a specific community. I wonder if it might be better to focus on making it easy for people to do the tidying up, rather than trying to automatically detect duplicates.

watchmaker‭ wrote 10 months ago

Exactly what I am thinking: automatic cleanup would be error prone no matter how much AI is invested. I suggest a manual clean-up about once a year, with mapping tags to aliases and grouping them. And some kind of warning and proposal "do you really want to ... there are already tags ..." that can be overruled if not appropriate.

trichoplax‭ wrote 10 months ago

Would the suggested alternative tags be hardcoded based on human observations?

watchmaker‭ wrote 10 months ago

Not exactly hardcoded, but cut, reorganized and replanted, based on growing longtime observation and experience, like a good gardener should do. No need to hurry.