[Tagging] sport=beachvolleyball?

Steve Bennett stevagewp at gmail.com
Thu Sep 2 13:41:02 BST 2010


On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm wondering if there's a reason this is beachvolleyball rather than
> beach_volleyball. Most other tags seem to have underscores where
> spaces would go between words.

The tagging scheme is essentially a folksonomy. This is the natural
consequence of the frequent cries to "use whatever tags you like,
standardise later".

(It's not a particularly terrible consequence either.)

Steve



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