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spottedmah

The history of Microsoft is tagged two ways "The History of Microsoft" and "History of Microsoft"

This is a problem because some videos are under one and some are under the other.

Charles
Welcome Change

Thank you for the report. In some sense, tags are generally imprecise given the ease with which they are created and that this typically happens at Post design time by the human poster. Autotagging would be an interesting idea and is realizable with appropriately precise metadata. Yes. I'm not a good tagger.

In other news, we do need to prune our tag tree (or is it more of a bush?) to remove inconsistencies . That's something I should start doing.
C

Duncanma
Just Coding for Fun...

In reply to Charles

#Mar 26th @ 7:17 PM

The actual problem here, in my opinion, is that 'history of microsoft' is a series title (or a show title) and shouldn't be used as a tag at all. Microsoft, History, Bill Gates ... those are good tags. "The History of Microsoft" isn't and is hard to type correctly the second time because it isn't a simple term it is in reality a title.

Charles
Welcome Change

In reply to Duncanma

#Mar 29th @ 1:37 AM

Agreed.

The hypothetical auto tagging algorithm would not create titles as tags. The general problem is that tag creation is in the human domain. It follows that transitive human properties will surface in the composition of tags by a human process.

Power to the machine,
C

Duncanma
Just Coding for Fun...

In reply to Charles

#Mar 29th @ 7:18 PM

It's isn't a problem, we have some great auto-tagging software from some 'Cyberdyne' company that will supposedly 'make all the decisions for us' and remove 'faulty human decision making' from our whole process.

HumanCompiler
Compiling humans...and code

In reply to Duncanma

#Mar 30th @ 10:12 PM

They've been great to work with so far.

spottedmah

In reply to HumanCompiler

#Mar 31st @ 11:53 AM

Off topic but how are you guys getting notified when someone posts to this thread? I don't any options to subscribe to an alert like on the new MSDN forums.