Expanding on this a little bit, I know Stack Overflow gets a bad rep for being an unwelcoming community at times, where members are more concerned about being pedantic about rules than about helping people. But what it does lead to is a corpus of usually very clearly tagged questions with answers, which is incredibloy valuable.
So for instance, people adding the #discuss tag to a blog post because they want people to discuss it in comments, devalues the tag. It means the tag no longer just gathers the "short topic introduction" + replies style of posts.
If I'm interested in a tag, I'll follow it. So if you use the right tags, you'll get a higly targeted audience to see your post, which I think is incredible valuable marketing-wise.
You're totally right. With strong tagging policies, people know what to expect - and people love to know what to expect (we're all busy and have limited time/attention, so most of us want to know that what we invest it in will give us what we want from it).
This is most definitely at the intersection of culture and strategy, in that setting up supported tags with templates, aliases, and other tools Forem provides will prepare contributors for success, and having an engaged team of tag mods will refine and smooth out any bumps in the tagging process. As Forem creators, we want to deliver value to our communities, and well-managed tags help us well-manage expectations.
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Expanding on this a little bit, I know Stack Overflow gets a bad rep for being an unwelcoming community at times, where members are more concerned about being pedantic about rules than about helping people. But what it does lead to is a corpus of usually very clearly tagged questions with answers, which is incredibloy valuable.
So for instance, people adding the #discuss tag to a blog post because they want people to discuss it in comments, devalues the tag. It means the tag no longer just gathers the "short topic introduction" + replies style of posts.
If I'm interested in a tag, I'll follow it. So if you use the right tags, you'll get a higly targeted audience to see your post, which I think is incredible valuable marketing-wise.
You're totally right. With strong tagging policies, people know what to expect - and people love to know what to expect (we're all busy and have limited time/attention, so most of us want to know that what we invest it in will give us what we want from it).
This is most definitely at the intersection of culture and strategy, in that setting up supported tags with templates, aliases, and other tools Forem provides will prepare contributors for success, and having an engaged team of tag mods will refine and smooth out any bumps in the tagging process. As Forem creators, we want to deliver value to our communities, and well-managed tags help us well-manage expectations.