Hyphens in Hashtags
D351
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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.
Jason Robinson Sat 24 Jan 2015 6:43PM
Added a week to the proposal - a week is too little for a large technical detail like this.
If it's been voted before, this vote result should replace that one.
D351 Sat 24 Jan 2015 6:55PM
If Goob's right, I apologize. I haven't been on loomio in some time, but I remembered having posted this convo some time ago.
D351 Sun 25 Jan 2015 4:59AM
I don't know why I didn't think about underscores.
Jason Robinson Sun 25 Jan 2015 11:51AM
Soooo to clarify, this proposal only talks about changing the way searching tags works? So I search for #LinuxUser and #Linux-User and #Linux_User and they bring the same result?
D351 Sun 25 Jan 2015 4:07PM
Underscores were not part of the original proposal (but definitely a good idea), but other than that, yes, though it should have the same effect on your stream.
Jason Robinson Sun 25 Jan 2015 8:10PM
@armandoluscher well, currently when you search for tags, for example #LinuxUser - you get results for that. No logic to make for example a search for #LinuxUser tag also contain the posts with tags #Linux-User and #Linux_User.
goob Sun 25 Jan 2015 9:48PM
No logic to make for example a search for #LinuxUser tag also contain the posts with tags #Linux-User and #Linux_User.
I think that would be very helpful. Semantically it's the same search; it's just a slightly different text string to a computer. Is there any occasion you can think of in which someone searching for #LinuxUser wouldn't want to see results also from #Linux-User and #Linux_User?
Armando Lüscher Sun 25 Jan 2015 11:19PM
@jasonrobinson Did you mean to say there is no computer-logic implemented yet, or that you see no logic in making this change?
In other words: Do you or don't you think it makes sense to handle tags with hyphens/underscores the same as their counterparts without them?
The way you phrased it is quite ambiguous :-)
goob Mon 26 Jan 2015 12:20PM
Did you mean to say there is no computer-logic implemented yet
Ah, that is an interpretation I hadn't considered.
goob · Sat 24 Jan 2015 4:42PM
I think this proposal has already been made and passed on a previous occasion. I agree with it anyway.