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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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