On 6/21/07, Matthew Brown <morven(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What bugs me in Flickr is people who are too lazy to
tag their
pictures individually and tag a whole uploaded set - sometimes
hundreds of pictures - with every tag that's valid for at least one
image in it. So you'll get a whole set of family photos that are
tagged 'train' because there's a train in one of them.
I actually caught my dad doing this and "interviewed" him about it
because it bothers me also. Turns out I think it's more a problem with
the uploader and the interface than any malevolence on their part. He
didn't really understand the concept of tags completely, but saw the
box there and had a rough idea. I think for users like this they
aren't thinking of tags as ways to help anyone, just something that
needs to be entered since the box is there.
The concept should probably either be explained to people like this
better, or the interface elements not made so obvious, so that people
that don't really know what tags are don't feel obligated to enter
something.
Judson
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