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1. Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Feb-2019 15:24:42 UTC Christine Lemmer-Webber

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   @nightpool Are you saying that if an alternate proposal for tag-based alternatives to CWs are proposed, and the UI is decent, you'd consider its application to Mastodon? :)

   • Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Feb-2019 15:26:01 UTC Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     @nightpool Anyway, the CW stuff doesn't use a special glyph, you click on it and enter it.

     I'd look at how tumblr does tags for inspiration; that community is very pro-tags. Similarly I'd read and consider https://idlewords.com/talks/fan_is_a_tool_using_animal.htm

   • not a lot, just forever (nightpool@cybre.space)'s status on Friday, 08-Feb-2019 15:30:54 UTC not a lot, just forever

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     @cwebber i use tumblr more then I use mastodon, i'm very familiar with how tags work. I'm very familiar with "fan is a tool using animal" and have written a lot about how I think it's good in some places but bad in others.

     specifically I don't understand how users are supposed to choose between "sensitive tags" and "normal tags" when they're making posts. Is this supposed to be a separate field? a way of annotating existing tags using a checkbox or some type of glyph?

     Christine Lemmer-Webber repeated this.
   • Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Feb-2019 15:35:33 UTC Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • not a lot, just forever

     @nightpool I see what you mean now about glyph. I interepreted what you said differently, as # or @ being used in a "special" way in microblogging clients.

     But you're right, there would have to be a distinction, should the sensitive flag exist on tags