I dislike the caps. I'd go with a simple colon instead of the square brackets.
That would make it less visually jarring while still allowing quick filtering.
Agree; ata, could you retitle your post to match what appears to be a weak consensus for no caps and yes colons?
Will post URLs update when tags get edited out of them later, e.g. when a [DRAFT] moves to the main site?
Maybe one for thought experiments? They're related to polls in that they frequently end with "what do you think would happen," but I think they deserve their own category.
Good idea.
I was thinking of having a category for posts that are invitations to brainstorm/speculate on some topic. Do you think that's similar enough to yours to include them under one keyword?
(And now I am thinking that "essay question–type surveys" may make more sense as part of this category than grouped with simple vote-oriented polls.)
Do you think that's similar enough to yours to include them under one keyword?
Yes, and [SPEC] is I think the best short version of any of the ways we've described it.
(And now I am thinking that "essay question–type surveys" may make more sense as part of this category than grouped with simple vote-oriented polls.)
Sometimes, yes, but not necessarily. I think the difference is whether you're seeking more ideas and data about the subject in general, or if you specifically want to know the experiences of LW users.
I propose the following title keywords for Discussion posts, to be included as I did with [META] in this one.
Feel free to propose others, debate the merit of the ones I've suggested, tell me that the whole thing is a stupid idea, etc.
This is not meant to replace the actual Tags system, which is good for arbitrarily tagging posts by topic. I see this as a way to allow us to quickly scan through the list of Discussions and know what general type of content to expect from each item. I don't expect that absolutely everything will need one of these keywords, but many/most of the things that have been posted in Discussion so far seem to be categorizable along these lines. And I don't intend by this to encourage specific types of content (e.g. if we get more polls as Discussion posts now as a result of having a [POLL] keyword, then it is not working correctly), I only suggest that it may be useful for organizing the things people are already using this section for.