I’ve had a request for the ability to add tags to topics when posting by email. This could work by adding a line as follows starting with tags: and then a comma separated list.
tags: tag1, tag2, tag3
I can see potential for difficulty, e.g. because there is no autocomplete people won’t know tags that are already being used and create duplicates, but I also think it can be quite powerful and help people to indicate organization they’d like without having to log in - and in my community many people just want to stay in their email.
We (@mcwumbly and I) would really benefit from a feature like this also. Was anything ever implemented that enables tagging topics that are created via email?
I’m with you, Jeff. My opinion has changed since posting this request back in the day. Let’s keep it simple, and let the moderators garden and fix tags etc. If people want to indicate in their message where it should go that’s fine too.
Here are some thoughts to address the risks that you identified:
The feature should respect that tags site settings, including “minimum trust level to create tags” If that is higher than the user’s trust level, then the tag would just get dropped if it doesn’t exist (which could be due to a typo).
If the user’s trust level allows them to create tags, then the new tag would be created (which could be a misspelling).
Yes, the chance of these errors is higher without immediate feedback, but on the other hand, this is a pretty “advanced” feature anyway, so I wouldn’t expect a huge onslaught of tagging mayhem were it to be added.
It’s a pain in the behind to implement properly (allowing for localization and some leniency with format), a feature that is impossible to discover and dealing with edge cases is hard.
That said, I don’t see why not allow the community to send through a well specified PR, cause it is kind of important for mailing list parity.
원래의 tags: 로 시작하는 줄을 추가하고 쉼표로 구분된 태그 목록을 작성하는 방식에서 x+tag@forum.example을 사용하자는 제안까지 여러 가지가 있었습니다. 첫 번째 방식이 더 마음에 들지만, 두 번째 방식은 기존 그룹 및 카테고리의 이메일 수신 구성을 깨뜨릴 가능성이 높기 때문에, 태그 오류를 처리해야 하는 어려움도 이해합니다.
^tags:의 후속 사용은 무시한다는 점에 대해 어느 정도 합의(즉, 사양)가 있어야 합니다. 이는 이메일의 앞부분에 있는 태그를 우선시하고, 인용을 답장보다 위에 두는 것을 선호하는 사람들을 위해 인용문을 무시하는 것을 의미합니다. 하지만 다른 측면에서는 이 제안은 제 입장에서 보면 견고해 보입니다.