On 6/21/07, Matthew Brown morven@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 [[:en:User:Cohesion]]