Tag search that includes your circle's tags

[dragonfly]

Title:
Tag search that includes your circle's tags

Area:
tags

Summary:
I'd like a way to search the tags of all my friends at once, to see what has been posted on a certain subject, within my circle.

Description:
Currently I can see all the posts I've made with a certain tag, by clicking on it. If I acquire a new interest (or fandom) I'd like to be able to sort for the posts made by people I subscribe to, regardless of date, on that subject, without needing to scroll through months worth of their posts. Or without having to go to each journal individually, checking their tags. This could also be used, for instance, in seeing how everyone I follow responded to a certain meme.

One limitation, of course, barring some kind of AO3-like tag-wrangling, would be that the tags would need to be written identically by each user.

Poll #3743 Tag search that includes your circle's tags

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 37

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Should be implemented as-is.
24 (64.9%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.7%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (2.7%)

(I have no opinion)
11 (29.7%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[aithine]

You don't need tag wrangling--as long as the word or phrase you're searching for is part of the tag, the search would find it. And if folks don't want to label stuff with complete or usable tags, wrangling's not gonna help anyway. *g*

[ursamajor]

I like the general idea of being able to limit search to "just my circle," or even "just this reading filter."

Not necessarily only-tag-search, for the reasons aithine stated above (lord knows I'm horrible at keeping up with a usable tagsonomy, and even if it makes things harder to find, I still like when people come up with unique names for things), but having some granularity in search options would be super-spiffy.

with changes

[noracharles]

Please count this as another vote for with changes:

I would like for paid users to be able to do a site wide search restricted to the tag field (as an alternative to the current full text search).

It would be fine with me to also have the option to limit the search to people on my reading list, but what I really want to be able to do is find new content I would not otherwise have seen.

[ciaan]

I'd also like to be able to search on who lists an interest, limited to my access list.