trans-tagging

[Caleb Davis]

Hm, crazy idea...

So...I wonder if any one else would want to be able to tag other people's media with their own separate set of tags. Delicious does this by accident because every page can be bookmarked by anyone, and you can view everyone's bookmarks for a given link, but I don't know of other services that do this on purpose.

Some things that we tag are pretty cut and dry, so there probably won't be much variation of tags from one person to another. Links are a good example. A news story about a startup donut shop down the street fits rather specifically into one's perception.

But art is different. Art is supposed to hit people different ways. I imagine that stuff people put on their gmg instance will be art, and that visitors will experience a user's media in different ways. Let's allow for that

[Caleb Davis]

The immediate questions are, "does this really need to be a part of gmg," and "would it be awesome if it was?" I would go with no and maybe, respectively.

Sharing would be off by default. Specifically, from the uploader's and the viewer's perspectives: viewer

• I can see my trans-tags of your media, but no one else can uploader
• I can see my media's trans-tags, but no one else can

Sharing could go all the way up from there to a free-for-all from either perspective. Any genuine sharing that goes on would enrich the social environment...

...but then you have to account for undesirable trans-tags: viewer

• I don't care about other people's trans-tags. I just want the good-ole fashion tags that the uploader wants me to see. uploader
• I don't care about other people's trans-tags about my media

From there you could use a whitelist or blacklist strategy to allow trans-tags into your life. [BONUS]: trans-tag permissions

[Christopher Allan Webber]

This seems like a pretty complex feature. I'm marking it as rejected for now; if you disagree, ping me on IRC and we'll discuss reopeining it. I tend to think that features like this could be either handled in a plugin or in external bookmarking tools?

[Elrond]

This feature was moved to the new "Feature Ideas" page on the wiki. If someone decides to work on this, they can reopen this bug.

[Will Kahn-Greene]

The original url for this bug was ​http://bugs.foocorp.net/issues/584 .