RE: Linguistics Is A Science, Not One Of The Humanities 語言學是一門科學，並不屬於人文
The Steemit developers don't seem to have provided a good mechanism for generating tags.
The trending section includes some longtail tags I have never even heard of. I have absolutely no idea what #markboss, #monomad, #muksteem, #stach, and #trevonjb (listed above) refer to: I can't even venture a firm guess (perhaps #trevonjb is a rapper?), but I'm sure these activities or people, whatever they are, can't be as popular as #languagelearning, a popular activity which is practiced worldwide, but doesn't even appear.
For many people, if a tag is not in the trending section, it's not worth bothering with. Anyone who insists on posting under #languagelearning or a related tag is condemned to obscurity. When I post under #steemstem, I'm sure that some interested people might at least take a look.
I'm also one of those infrequent posters. Sorry I took so long to respond..
Yeah, the tags are entirely up to the posters. That's one of the self-organizing aspects of the network that takes a deal of time to work itself out. Sadly, there aren't any good ways of filtering these on the steemit web site, so either you end up with all of the noise, or just the noise that makes it into trending.
I'm going to start including the #languagelearning tag in my related posts, but I don't know if I will bother with the #steemstem one.
It seems I've also become an infrequent poster. Life keeps getting in the way of me being "social" ;-)