Yes, long live the Zuckerberg fanfic!

+1 that the footnotes issue is quite an inconvenience. 

Regarding norms, some interesting notes from the Tagging FAQ at LW:

1. The goal of tags is to be used as a curated collection over time.
2. Better to not tag events, as they won't be relevant after a short while.
3. Better to tag with more specific tags than broad tags.
4. Vote on tags if you think the post is very relevant to that tag (and so it will show up earlier in the case where people look up through posts on that tag) and downvote when it's less relevant. 
5. Since tags are moderated, it is better to just add many tags and they will be checked for relevance and accuracy. So if you think that some tag would be useful, just go about it. (As a moderator here, I think that tags are very important and I'll gladly spend time going over more tags if that causes more tags to be created)
6. Good tags should have a balance between not being too small to be irrelevant and not being too big so that the list wouldn't help readers going through it and it would take a lot of overhead to tag new posts.
   1. I don't think that we should be that concerned with having a tag that's too big on the EA forum. 
   2. Generally, one can filter through several tags, so I'm not sure what to make of it. @Habryka, I'd be interested in your opinion on this.
7. Tags should avoid being too near other tags. This can be clarified in the description.
8. Tag evolution:
   • The tagging system is collectively applied which limits its ability to maintain tags with high-degrees of subjective nuance.
   • Tags overall experience pressure to be as inclusive as possible. If a concept is at all loosely connected to a topic, someone will apply it.
   • The general result of the above is that a closely related, although theoretically distinct, concepts will end up blurred and having heavy redundant post overlap.
9. Tag names should be as clear as possible, even for people who don't understand it in full neuance.
10. It's perfectly fine to use multiple names when is appropriate.
11. Keep tag names brief. Use $\&$ or $/$ instead of $\text{and}$. (I should rename $Col\le ctions\text{and}Resources$). 
12. Tag description should have the tag name in bold and link to related tags. (again, I should change things 😊)

[Low confidence – I'm hashing out my own opinion in public, not trying to apply admin pressure]

I like the tags you've listed there. If you'd asked me to think about concepts in EA and written a (long) list, I'd hope I would have found those. I feel like Political Polarization is maybe more niche than I would do? There's a key difference between us and LW here, which is that LW is investing a large amount of time into creating a whole ontology out of their tagging system, and organizing thing hierarchically, which allows the highlighting of broader tags, while we can't match them in hours devoted if Aaron and I both worked on it full time.

MichaelA @ 2020-08-04T09:49 (+2)

Thanks for that input. 

(Also sort-of thinking aloud)

What I've just done is add a tag for most of the shortform collections I'd made that didn't have a tag already. (With a few exceptions where the shortform collection was decently covered by an existing tag, or was really a fairly fuzzy or niche category.) 

For some of these, including political polarisation, there aren't many relevant Forum posts I'm aware of. But I felt like maybe that wasn't a big issue, because more posts on the topics might still be created or found later?

And then there's also the issue that some topics might be better off subsumed under something else. That might apply to Political Polarisation (though I'm not sure what it'd be subsumed under?) and to Differential Progress (under Existential Risk or Longtermism (philosophy) or something). 

For that reason I didn't (yet?) make Global Catastrophic Risks; that's clearly a non-niche topic, but is maybe covered by the Existential Risk tag (even if the concepts are meaningfully distinct). And it's why I haven't (yet?) made Meta-Ethics (as it could fit under Moral Philosophy).

Could admins hide or delete tags that they deem overly niche? I'd feel positive about that option being on the table, so people can feel more comfortable about creating tags that might not be worthwhile (which in turn seems good, because many of those tags will indeed be worthwhile). If admins plan to be extremely reluctant to do that, then maybe it'd be good to promote a more cautious norm around tag-creation?

JP Addison @ 2020-08-04T09:56 (+2)

I wish there was a community-led way of deciding about tags. I think LW is making the calls about their tag-classification that they've introduced. (See image.) So maybe it makes sense for us to be more opinionated.

MichaelA @ 2020-08-05T00:34 (+2)

I've now created the post Propose and vote on potential tags, which I hope can serve as a place to collect and sift through a bunch of ideas.

JP Addison @ 2020-08-04T09:44 (+2)

The History tag is for posts that are strongly focused on historical events or trends which don't necessarily connect to other tags (e.g., a post on the history of nuclear weapons should go in that tag instead), or that discuss or make heavy use of historical research methods. 

I feel like it's fine for them to overlap.

MichaelA @ 2020-08-04T11:12 (+2)

Either way seems ok to me. My thinking was that, if overlap was allowed, a large portion of all posts could be seen as "History" posts. But maybe that's inaccurate or ok. You and other people can feel free to edit any descriptions on tags I made :)

Meta: This discussion makes me realise it's possible it'd be valuable to have some equivalent of Wikipedia's "talk" pages for tags. (But maybe that'd take more work than it's worth.)

ETA: I now think you're right about the History tag, and have adjusted the description accordingly.

JP Addison @ 2020-08-04T11:26 (+4)

I expect that's on LW's roadmap.

Ben Pace @ 2020-08-04T17:23 (+6)

Narrator: “He was right.”

I tested 1 (added a Collections and Resources tag which I think you'd like 😉), and it works fine and visible to anyone. The tags are moderated, so there is an approval process.

You say "They also now have the ability to edit tag descriptions in a wiki-like fashion", but when someone does something stupid on Wikipedia other people can view the article history and restore old versions. Here it looks like regular users can't do that?

My guess is that this is a temporary bug. The History page should allow users to see any previous revisions that were made, and should allow you to compare arbitrary revisions. You can see what it's supposed to look like on LessWrong. With that, restoring previous versions should be pretty easy. I expect that bug will probably be fixed within a week or so, and until then it probably won't be much of a problem.

Huh, no idea why that happens. The hover-previews are not triggered by selection events, but only by the $onMouseOver$ and the $onMouseLeave$ events and have been that way for a long time. My guess is something must have changed in Chrome or maybe in Vimium to make that happen? 

Reading through some Github issues for Vimium, it appears that Vimium does indeed send $onMouseOver$ events when clicking on a link, so this is intended behavior as far as I can tell (why I do not know, though I can imagine it overall resulting in a better experience on other websites). I don't currently know how fix this without breaking it on other devices, so I would mostly treat this as a Vimium bug.

Hi, Obscurata. Thanks for posting this question. I'll be answering your question in a DM. 

In the new editor when you have your cursor at the beginning of a new line a small Paragraph symbol should appear on the left of the editor. Clicking on that should bring up a new table menu item.

I am unable to create tables, upload images, etc in a comment. I think this would be useful. Is this a deliberate design choice, or will it be fixed later?

How do you create them in Markdown?