@Alex I'd personally question the interest of doing this if only a subset of ID questions can be tagged appropriately. For instance, is there generally an appropriate author tag?
Has anyone ever thought about having tags for answers in addition to the tags for questions? That is to say that when someone writes an answer they would be able to assign tags to the answer separate from the tags on the question. My feeling is that this could be useful because oftentimes answers...
@Alex What would be the interest over editing the question to adjust the tags? I'd be tempted to argue that the question and the answer ought to be about the same thing.
@lephe there are some deleted comments under SQB's answer but yeah, people were like "aaaand nobody noticed?!" __ "nah mate, sometimes people marketing those toys don't really know the anime so they see a dragon and they brand it as Drgaon Ball and that's it"
@Alex searching, new users answering with the wrong tags, user interface when reading posts becoming counterintuitive ("eh? Why is it phrased like an answer, if it has tags showing up it should be a question? Oh wait it is an answer?")
@Jenayah I don't think the first is any worse than new users posting questions with the wrong tags, and the second one would probably get figured out relatively quickly.
If users are used to see tags/keywords only in the "post at the top of the thread" throughout the whole Internet (Quora, newspapers articles etc) they'll get lost when reading your answers which ALSO have tags
@Alex why so? you can also be a master at Googling.
Maybe not for Gersonides 'cause his texts probably aren't all on Google but if the answer tags exist network-wide you would have to add "work" or "topic" tags when you just found stuff on Google
Urgh. OP asked a terse, unclear question and later self-answered inside their question. What do we do with this? It's closed, can't answer...
@Alex that's what the body answer is for, or at least a big fat TL;DR: / Disclaimer: I'm basing my answer on Gersonide's texts at the beginning of the answer
@Alex As a longtime programmer, those little practical details tend to crop up pretty quickly. That said, the theory is what you'd have to go through to convince the devs, so....
@Jenayah In my last job, I told users on a number of occasions - if there's something that would make your lives easier, ask. Never assume it would be too hard to do. Because, all too often, what you think would be hard to do might be easy; of course, what you think might be easy to do may be horribly difficult.
@Jenayah You prevent redundant tagging. Of course, when someone goes to change the question tags, then what happens to the answers? that would be yet another thing to resolve. Possibly, it would be considered the responsibility of the person making the edit to update the answers - which is, of course, unenforceable....
I bought this toy for my son.
Came along with a character named Cell.
Who would this character be?
