Category paths will be determined not by voting on each path in total, but by the sum of its parts
In Community-managed taxonomy, votes for term arrangement are autonomous, not taken as a contextual group.
There are philosophical difficulties with hierarchies, aside from my technical problems. (And I'm not talking about my moral objections to hierarchy in this case, either.)
A term hierarchy, or path, exists as a unit.
First-level > Second-level > Third-level > Term
But we're only recording votes in autonomous steps:
First-level > Second-level
Second-level > Third-level
Third-level > Term
I think I'll count on a wisdom of the crowds approach here.
And I define wisdom of the crowds not as the organized decision-making power of large groups of people, which I absolutely believe in, but as many uncoordinated choices making something sensible.
What this means technically is that each vote for term A to be a child of term B will be just that, a vote for that arrangement, whether or not it was part of a larger vote for a C > B > A path.
In Community-managed taxonomy, votes for term arrangement are autonomous, not taken as a contextual group.
There are philosophical difficulties with hierarchies, aside from my technical problems. (And I'm not talking about my moral objections to hierarchy in this case, either.)
A term hierarchy, or path, exists as a unit.
First-level > Second-level > Third-level > Term
But we're only recording votes in autonomous steps:
First-level > Second-level
Second-level > Third-level
Third-level > Term
I think I'll count on a wisdom of the crowds approach here.
And I define wisdom of the crowds not as the organized decision-making power of large groups of people, which I absolutely believe in, but as many uncoordinated choices making something sensible.
What this means technically is that each vote for term A to be a child of term B will be just that, a vote for that arrangement, whether or not it was part of a larger vote for a C > B > A path.
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