10 votes
stop sucking. Questions on 'cartoons' or 'computers' will never find the right person, too general.
You really need to starting doing some actual statistical analysis and natural language and get to the heart of a question. I keep being suckered into looking at questions just because generally like movies or the internet. PHP programming != computers, heck PHP programming != programming.
Thanks for the feedback! We are constantly working on improving our system that chooses who to send questions to. While it certainly isn't perfect, the tag you see isn't usually the only topic that our system is looking at. Many times more specific factors are also being considered.
If you see a question that is mistagged, you can also help out by typing 'tag: ' followed by a new topic. Thanks for your patience!
Paul
Well don't we have the ability to edit the tags for questions we ask? I've done it plenty of times to try to focus the questions a little better.
Pio
@Thomas
I agree. I think the best solution to this, at least in a short-term perspective, is for people to use the hash-tag feature more in their questions. Speaking of which, that feature should probably be more prominent in the UI, at least on web, so people get used to using it :)
Thomas
Id dissagree with this.
Programming is a sub-set field of computers.
PHP programming == programming.
but
programming != PHP programming.
As far as semantics go, the logical progression should always be for the bigger groups to contain all their smaller sub-groups.
(If someone is knowledable about "animals", then they said more chance about being knowledgable about "cats" then then most other people)
However, Aardvark should always try the most precise match first (&q... more
Id dissagree with this.
Programming is a sub-set field of computers.
PHP programming == programming.
but
programming != PHP programming.
As far as semantics go, the logical progression should always be for the bigger groups to contain all their smaller sub-groups.
(If someone is knowledable about "animals", then they said more chance about being knowledgable about "cats" then then most other people)
However, Aardvark should always try the most precise match first ("cats") and only if that fails for too long, go onto the larger groups.
Also, Aardvark perhapes should polietely encourage people to be more detailed with their questions and not just tag "Computers" but rather "hardware" or "software" to help separate stuff better.
(and, generaly, be as precise as they can)