[mb-users] using folksonomy tags for personal collections/wishlists

[Lukáš Lalinský]

On 10/5/07, Alex Dupuy <alex.dupuy at mac.com> wrote:
> I'm not aware of any other folksonomy sites where whitespace isn't a
> separator by default (if you really want it in your tag, you need to use
> quotes).

Last.fm?

> I presume the logic for this in MBz tags is some idea that it is
> more desirable for "grunge death metal" (without the quotes) to be parsed as
> one tag rather than three.  But I'm not at all convinced that this is
> actually better.  You can always join words with a hyphen if you want a
> single tag (e.g. death-metal) although I suspect most people will find
> deathmetal easier to type and just as effective.

For me grungedeathmetal is much harder to read than grunge death
metal. And to add tag grunge death metal if tags are separated by
whitespace, I need 4 keystrokes (" are hidden under shift on most
keyboard layouts), with commas I need only one.

Lukas