I guess that might be going a bit overboard. But it's not completely unprecedented.
Slashdot, for instance, has a restricted tagging system for their comments. Comments can be tagged as "Interesting", "Insightful", or "Funny".
I've heard some people on Slashdot complain about the "Funny" comments, but it's quite easy to filter those out via Slashdot's interface. I'd say that was pretty useful.
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But you can't turn off comments arguing over whether an article was tagged properly or not :)
I can envision a lot arguments like that taking over the discussion.
Those comments could themselves be tagged "meta". And there should be an option to ignore all comments tagged as such.
So we're talking about tagging comments too (as opposed to just the article)? Not sure we need to go that far...
I guess that might be going a bit overboard. But it's not completely unprecedented.
Slashdot, for instance, has a restricted tagging system for their comments. Comments can be tagged as "Interesting", "Insightful", or "Funny".
I've heard some people on Slashdot complain about the "Funny" comments, but it's quite easy to filter those out via Slashdot's interface. I'd say that was pretty useful.
Collapsible trees could be added at the same time.