User tags question

May 20, 2008 9:55 PM

Is there a way of viewing the tags a user has used on posts that's a little more in depth than the Top 10 Tags on the Profile page?

(It seems like the sort of thing that should be there but I'm not seeing it. If it's not there I guess this could be considered a pony request for a "view all tags" link on the profile page.)

posted by Artw to Feature Requests at 9:55 PM (6 comments total)

I've been meaning to add thorough tag data to the Infodump, though I don't think it's there yet. I don't recall if there were plans for adding more tag data directly to user profiles or not, however.
posted by cortex (staff) at 9:57 PM on May 20, 2008

I'm pretty sure we sort of left this off on purpose so that people would feel okay accurately tagging their threads, especially in AskMe. So, while it might be useful to find, for example, y2karl's posts tagged music, it would be less useful to find cortex's one AskMe about getting a rat out of the toilet (although now that I look, we don't even put AskMe data there, do we...?). All that data is gettable, but for people with few posts it would skew funny, was our thinking.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 4:49 AM on May 21, 2008

heh. infodump.
posted by blue_beetle at 7:07 AM on May 21, 2008

Just click on Recent Activia!
posted by brain_drain at 8:01 AM on May 21, 2008

I'm pretty sure we sort of left this off on purpose so that people would feel okay accurately tagging their threads, especially in AskMe.

That sounds kind of reasonable, given the Ask angle. Thanks!
posted by Artw at 9:00 AM on May 21, 2008

jessamyn: "..it would be less useful to find cortex's one AskMe about getting a rat out of the toilet"

I hope that's a hypothetical, because toilet rat wasn't cortex.
posted by Plutor at 9:49 AM on May 21, 2008