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Chris Messina@chrismessina
Are you favor of hashtags on /dev/null? (FWIW, hashtags in a closed network with stronger identity protections would be less prone to hashtag abuse, like how they worked in the early days of Twttr.) #IDemandHashtags
  • Hell yes!42%, 14 votes
  • Hell no!36%, 12 votes
  • I have thoughts... see my comment below21%, 7 votes

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J3ffJessie@J3ffJessie
Has to be a maintained approved list of hashtags that can be used and edited in the future. None of the freehand whatever hashtag madness. Keeps it clean and less spammy
Chris Messina@chrismessina
How would you choose what's allowed? I would still be able to create my own #ArbitraryHashtagNotOnTheList, so would an allow-list actually work in practice?
J3ffJessie@J3ffJessie
I don't know specifically but I am thinking hashtags as listable through searching highlights or something. Keep them limited to approved ones like #phpCVE would highlight all commits for that issue. Versus free text where people get stupid and start doing insensitive hashtags or creating hashtags for self promotion and aura farming stuff.

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Chris Messina
Right, that's been the pattern on open social networks where advertising and popularity is the point. This network is unlikely to reach those scales, and therefore it *might* be possible that people might not abuse the form...