Magazine tags and badges
Hey everyone, I added some badges, which are the Kbin version of Reddit's post flairs. Please use them as appropriate, and suggest any others that you feel would be useful to include.
Hey everyone, I added some badges, which are the Kbin version of Reddit's post flairs. Please use them as appropriate, and suggest any others that you feel would be useful to include.
bou, @BaldProphet I never used Reddit all that much. What are badges / flairs supposed to be / do?
BaldProphet, They tag a post so its general type can be easily determined. The badges I added are "Help" for threads seeking general advice or asking questions, "Public Aquariums", for posts related to aquariums seen in public places, whether a fish tank in a restaurant or an institution like the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and "Show & Tell", for threads showing something off.
bou, @BaldProphet I don't think I get it - how is that different from tags?
BaldProphet, Tags are keywords; when they're added to a magazine, content from the Fediverse including those tags gets pulled into the magazine.
bou, So badges are pretty much the same, except they don't pull content from the Fediverse?
BaldProphet, A badge is equivalent to a Reddit post flair: https://mods.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360010513191-Post-Flair
A tag is equivalent to a Twitter (or Mastodon) hashtag: https://www.hashtags.org/how-to/history/what-is-a-hashtag/
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