[Crowdsourced solutions] The problem with Tags...
Hey everyone,
I'm testing something here...can I crowdsource people's ideas and brains to find innovative solutions to problems? With the price of SBD and Steem right now...an upvote at 100% from me is almost worth $1000 US. Seems like a good enough incentive to get people's thinking right?
This seems to be as close as it get to being able to create customize bounties using my vote. You are welcome to participate and pitch in your ideas. If I find one particularly insightful, I might very well give a generous upvote!
The Problem
Right now I'm getting frustrated visiting the #photography tag. I'm working with friends to remedy the situation but I would like to crowdsource your brain for solutions.
Here how it plays out:
#travel and #life are very popular...but they are often attached to #photography. Which diminished the quality of that tag because sometimes, it's just poor quality photo taken from a cheap cellphone.
Crowdsourcing
I have my ideas about how to remedy the situation but I want YOURS. Submit it in the comment box below and may the best idea win!
How about we finally get communities implemented? That way you can create your own tag/communities that have moderators that can get rid of all the unwanted crap.
Asking someone like steemcleaners to patrol all the tags just isn't feasible, setting up communities seems like the best way to go.
That is definitely part of the solution
I think this paltform should show what each tag can be used for . I feel like it’s difficult to stop people from using a tag because as I know , new people or even people that have been on this paltform try to use tags that are popular so they can get awareness . I feel like the first tag should show the importance of the topic/picture .
$1000 HOLY SHIT
What if articles that contained 0 images and were tagged photography were invisible in the photography display category?
Also, articles that contained images and were tagged photography would only contain the image with no accompanying text other than maybe the title.
This would create the effect of a photo album effect in the photography category.
It might also be interesting to do photography specific tags to further allow for categorization of pictures like:
Additionally, the photo category could eventually expand into some sort of ipfs based storage allowing users to store their albums online and get upvotes on specific pictures.
You make some good points here!
You can kind of get this already by using Steepshot. It's not exactly as you imagined it, but if you want a photo album type of interface, then this is a good start.
Sub-tags is also a great idea; and very easy to make happen. As long as the community agree to use this it could be done without having to upgrade the Steemit UI or the Steem blockchain, since these are essentially just alternative tags.
The subtags idea is similar to my idea but not as complicated. :-)
Yeah, that's true, but the good thing about subtags is that they can be done without any changes to anything, so just decide on some of them, use them, and they're active :)
Of course, I really do want to changes to the tag system, either from the blockchain directly or from the Steemit UI. It's not working very nicely at the moment..
I'm not sure either case would require changes to the blockchain itself. I'm going to do a garbage post to see if machine tagging works on the blockchain or if it will break.
It seems to break. lol. This is okay though. I could just merge the ideas. #tag--subtag---value. This could still provide something easy for a script to parse. and its instantly usable as you say.
I love the idea of the sub tags, like photo.familypictures... and that you have an option to specify a username. for example @rival/photo.familypictures and that you get the storyboard.. Thx
That would be great @billbutler
Yeah i do agree with you. more appropriate tags should be created for further categorizing but also having pictorials apps on steemit will make it more attractive.
Maybe attach some megapixel of a picture check before you can post, or look to the metadata of a picture and this must be filled and not older then 1 year for example...
This requires a massive change on steemit I guess. I am not a developer.. maybe this can be build by steepshot..
If you used a tag system based on machine tags like #photo:date=01-24-2018, #photo:megapixel=13, #photo:geolat=12.3456, #photo:geolong=-98.7654, #photo:cat=sunset, etc. his could be useful.
I believe I said this before...
... and tried to engage developers...
We need searching and sorting on steemit.
Do you remember being promised a "resteem" tab?
What happened is the guy got it all done, but found that the back end couldn't deliver. It basically spewed out 20 followed posts (resteemed or not)
So, it went back to the drawing board... and hasn't been heard from again.
Steemit needs sorting:
You should be able to show all of your favorite followees. (this should be a personal, or public list of accounts) Your favorite followees with your favorite tags. And then after you read all those, go to all your followees and see just the posts (not the resteems)
This is pretty close to the groups function we have heard rumor of.
All it takes is storing a list of accounts. The sharing of the accounts list would be the hard part, as we don't have anything in our current interface for it.
We should be able to go to someone's blog page and then sort by tags. Steemit really should put the 5 or 6 most used tags just under the menu bar.
These are all easy things, but the interface is a pain. Its hard to get it just right, with enough information and sorting, without becoming too cluttered.
Further, we should have default tags. Such as CN or tagalog
So you can drill down from there. (Important if you don't read english)
And like I said, I tried to engage the programmers, but... I think they are all on Github not here.
A New tag may not be a solution because It needs adoption and May be flooded again with bad quality.
But, here is an Idea:
Create an interface like steemfollowers.com, but to join and to be listed the app the user needs your approval, wich would happen after some manual check of the quality (or maybe a community vote).
Now you create a New tag related to the app.
The feed of the app would only show the posts by the approved participants that contains the newly created tag.
That way, you have a personalized filter, and the participants would also see through the filters and vote on the best photos.
It would be kind of a closed curation community.
Maybe hard to implement, but doable.
photography tag is totally bs now. so, better go for a unique tag which is related to your concept ;) @cryptoctopus
@resteemia
reteemed & upvoted & commented & followed
#thepinkpanter :-) agree!
An excellent idea to improve the #photography tag and my idea is simple, that is not everyone who places the opportunity to place a high-quality photo because of the lack of expensive technology and for this I suggest adding a division to the #photography tag. For example, "favorite photo", "professional", "author's" and so on, and then let the community decide where and what photo to evaluate. Thank you @cryptoctopus
Agree with you
@cryptoctopus,
We can use a specific tag for this purpose. Commonly we can use photography tag! But we can specify it like cryptoctopus-photography, likewise!
Today I started a new photography tag as tga-photography and untalented-photography!
So if we new to photography I think untalented-photography is a good idea! tga-photography is for me! If someone wish to use that tag, he/she must submit something related on my themes! Otherwise I will warn first, if he/she can't listen then flag war will begins :D
This is my idea! I think it might work well!
Cheers~