Loomio
Fri 13 Jun 2014 6:22PM

Hyphens in Hashtags

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For the sake of simplifying the use of Tags, it seems that it would be best if hyphens were treated as a non-character. This way, if a person is watching #animal-liberation, they also get results from #animalliberation without having to add both tags. If hyphens were simply removed from tags (another option), there are other gains to be made, as it would improve interoperability for those who cross-post with other services that do not allow hyphens in their tags. Yet another option would be to automatically remove hyphens from tags when cross-posting to those services.

KAK

Karthikeyan A K Sat 14 Jun 2014 5:48PM

Good idea! +1

D

D351 Mon 16 Jun 2014 5:54PM

So, which of the three options mentioned do you think would be best or most easily implemented?

DU

Eduardo Mon 30 Jun 2014 11:48PM

dots (.) are also not allowed on hashtags. For example #node.js doesn't work.

JB

Jesse Bufton Tue 1 Jul 2014 6:03AM

I like treating it the same and also removing hashtags when crossposting to other services.

ST

Sean Tilley Wed 2 Jul 2014 5:03PM

It looks like hyphens are properly supported by hashtags now. ;)

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D351 Sun 6 Jul 2014 11:02PM

Hyphens are supported, but because there is no community standard on their usage, tags that should be equivocal are treated separately, ie #big-band and #bigband bring up different results even though it seems obvious that when a person posts one they mean the same thing as the other. It also doesn't resolve issues with the fact that hyphens are not usable in tags on services which are available for cross-posting.

D

Poll Created Sat 24 Jan 2015 4:00PM

Treat hyphenated and non-hyphenated tags as the same. Closed Sun 8 Feb 2015 3:05PM

Outcome
by D351 Tue 25 Apr 2017 5:51AM

Looks like a strong consensus for treating hyphenated and non-hyphenated tags as the same.

In order to simplify tag usage, I propose that hyphens be ignored in them, allowing #a-big-dog to be treated as the same tag as #ABigDog so that users can choose to use hyphens or not, without it effecting the results, much as capitalization is already ignored in tags.

Results

Results Option % of points Voters
Agree 100.0% 23 T IGM RD N M KAK J C Q JD DU D T TR PDB L LM A N M
Abstain 0.0% 0  
Disagree 0.0% 0  
Block 0.0% 0  
Undecided 0% 255 BK ST FS MS TS AA S CB HF BO JH DM GC JH JR F RF M EG G

23 of 278 people have participated (8%)

KAK

Karthikeyan A K
Agree
Sun 25 Jan 2015 3:23AM

good idea. The same thing must apply to underscore too

AL

Armando Lüscher
Agree
Sun 25 Jan 2015 7:17PM

I agree with @jasonrobinson.

Tags should be case insensitive, ignoring hyphens and underscores, and treated the same. As proposed, this just makes them much more usable.

As I'm completely new here, what exactly has been implemented already?

DU

Agree
Sun 1 Feb 2015 10:12PM

Seems reasonable

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