Concept Proposal: Tag Power

The current tag system is a little limited compared to subreddits for example. People can have diverging concepts of what a tag means, which is fine but it means there isn't such an easy way to have a "sub" community where people are posting about a general topic without confusion over what that topic actually is.

The perfect example of this is the "sex"tag. If you search it, you will find very different ideas of what this tag is about. Discussions about sex as an aspect of society, personal sex experience blogs or just a tag to share sexually arousing or explicit images/videos?

None of these are right or wrong, but when you use a tag most people aren't looking for all interpretations of it, it would help if we could converge on 'schelling points' for what a tag means so we better find what we are looking for.

Further, there is quite a bit of tag abuse, especially with 'introduceyourself' which undermine what people use them for.

What could help is if some users could help to define and police their own tag concepts. Ideally this would be done with more experimental tags initially, but it would be akin to creating a subreddit without the absolute ownership as seen there.

That's where Tag Power comes in. As we all know, Steem Power is how we measure our stake and ownership in the Steem project. Tag Power could allow us to have a stake in a particular domain within Steem. Creating Tag Power would be the same process as creating Steem Power, you Power Up Steem, but optionally elect a tag to have stake in. Doing so gives you lower (perhaps half) as much weight as normal outside of the tag, but more (perhaps double) in topics within the tag.

With this more formal ownership, we can have subreddit style communities without worrying about as much about abuse from the absolute owners as happens so regularly elsewhere.