I believe the new hives/communities feature will consider custom tagging and so that's probably going nowhere. Further, I believe those who already have their tags working for them are not going to stop using them. It's more than just indexing Steemit.com, taxonomy is used for many other things. Lastly, Steem blockchain has no limit on taxonomy. Nobody really has the jurisdiction to police the taxonomy, especially post-hf20. Looking ahead and at development patterns, I think more and more bots will be flagged for these kinds of herding techniques- which is going to cost bot owners a lot of money for nothing. Just be a drain of steem for every bot trying.
I believe a win/win is upping condenser and all other apps to 30 tags, like instagram. And creating an ajax follow or mute feature. That might be part of hives. I have to check.
Already looking at condenser code to consider a pull request for additional tags.
"I believe those who already have their tags working for them are not going to stop using them." yeah I mentioned that since we talked about it. For now my suggestion is just more tags. Mute would be nice too
Yes, I agree. Muting tags would rock. Right now you can mute users totally though. It can clean up your trending quite a bit. Few speak on the power of mute.
Yeah for sure, I've been muting poor quality stuff in trending, muting tags would be soooo nice