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Meta Tag collision between proposals

Definitely a problem I don't see this as a problem for filtering posts. If I filter by the proposal tag and the clashing tag, then I will only see posts with the clashing tag for that proposal, no...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar trichoplax‭ · 2023-06-22T20:15:56Z (over 1 year ago)
## Definitely a problem
I don't see this as a problem for filtering posts. If I filter by the proposal tag and the clashing tag, then I will only see posts with the clashing tag for that proposal, not the other proposal.

Where I see more of a problem is when people want to add the tag wiki and the wording makes no sense for the other proposal.

## Longer term we need a better solution
At some point there may be enough proposals that clashes are common, at which point we might need a sophisticated solution, so I hope people will keep suggesting new ideas.

## Workaround for now
For now, with a small number of proposals, hopefully clashes will be rare. Until someone comes up with a better solution, I suggest we use tags as usual where they don't clash, and only use a workaround for those few tags that do clash.

For those that clash, we could prefix the tag name with the proposal name, so we'd have `video-games-base` and `chemistry-base`. This would allow having 2 separate tag wikis, but would require some manual renaming after migrating the tags to a successful proposal.