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304 sats \ 3 replies \ @jeff OP 31 Dec 2023 \ on: [meta] Any input to improve the ~econ territory? econ

Optional Country Tags

Similar to the other tagging ideas, many posts have a subject country. The list would be finite, and usage would naturally be optional. There are ISO standards for country codes, we could easily use those.
Similarly, the convention would need to emerge as some kind of square-bracket based prefix or suffix.
I actually don't like this idea. But, I suspect I'm in the fringe minority. I want to test my hypothesis by explicitly asking. The reason I don't like it, is because I'm politically against increasing the power of invisible lines on the dirt.
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15 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 31 Dec 2023
I also am not particularly interested in tagging countries, beyond including something in the title if it's super specific. Most posts have some general relevance, even if they're ostensibly about a particular country.
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293 sats \ 1 reply \ @jeff OP 31 Dec 2023 freebie
On the other hand, I do get triggered by titles which are focused on a single, specific, country, but don't mention the country in the title or even the post.
For this, I'm mulling a commenter-driven tagging solution w/ browser-extension concept.
Eg. If you start a comment with [US], that will allow for after-the-fact tagging. And then that commenter can earn sats for enriching the meta-data about the post.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 31 Dec 2023
That's a cool idea. Sometimes it's a tough call. If an article is talking about Fed policy, that's US specific on one hand, but enormously impactful internationally on another.
Either way, I like titles that clearly describe what's in the post.
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