Expanding choices for the "standardized" optional tags

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Has anyone considered the possible benefit/annoyance of adding some additional labels for selection as optional tags?

To give a sense of what I mean, I offer this shortlist of labels that exemplify what I am trying to convey:

  • keyboard h/w
  • keyboard s/w
  • mouse h/w
  • mouse s/w
  • display h/w
  • display s/w
  • network h/w
  • network s/w
  • video-stream h/w
  • video-stream s/w
  • usb h/w
  • usb s/w
  • sensor h/w
  • sensor s/w

Would there be a benefit to allowing the assignment of such tags ... with the intent of being able to subsequently use those for searching?

Or has it been conclusively determined that full-text search is more "productive" than key-oriented searching?

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The idea is good. Just like many other ideas on establishing proper order and discipline. And just like many other ideas, this one if adopted, will be fruitless. 95% of people would neglect it and the situation at whole would not change.

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I agree with @ugnvs.

Plus, if someone thinks it's a USB software issue, but turns out the USB hardware was bad all along - it becomes a bit pointless chasing tag accuracy. It might be a little too detailed then just simply having usb.

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Well, honestly, if the likes of Luke and Eugene don't think there would be much traction for the idea, I guess we can shut this discussion down.

No point wasting any more of people's time, regardless of the fact that the extra flags would allow someone to filter out "chaff", admittedly at the cost of overlooking some items in the repository which might actually be relevant.

:slight_smile:

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Well, good consistent tagging is a problem...

I know! Discourse forum software needs its embedded AI agent to classify solutions and tag them properly!

And we'll have two problems :rofl:

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Those AI agents are useless, or worse, if there is no process in place to have the rules they generate verified and confirmed via consensus from at least a trio of humans before being committed to the agent's rule base.

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