Author tags.

Discussion in 'Suggestions' started by TheDespaxas, Jun 29, 2017.

  1. TheDespaxas

    TheDespaxas Really Really Experienced

    In various suggestions the idea of listing authors of a story or helping finding the work of a particular author arose.

    I think I found an elegant solution that could probably be automated.

    Why not set the site to automatically add the name of the author as a tag to a chapter? That way you could find everyone that contributed to a story. Searching for the tag in the story search would give all the stories an author wrote in and it would be the same with chapters. It would permit all of that using an already existing system.

    I'm not sure how difficult it would be to do that, but considering the name of the author is already associated with the chapter it might not be impossible and if possible could be retroactive.

    Anyone thinks it is a good idea?
     
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  2. Nemo of Utopia

    Nemo of Utopia CHYOA Guru

    This: is fucking brilliant!
     
  3. gene.sis

    gene.sis CHYOA Guru

    It would be bad if a username tag would stay after deleting a user.


    What about some search syntax like "author:TheDespaxas"?

    It would also be nice to have the "contributors"-list from the old site back.
     
  4. TheDespaxas

    TheDespaxas Really Really Experienced

    Why not set it so it displays user deleted or anonymous if the user does not exist anymore?

    Yeah a contributors list would be best, but I was trying to find an easier way to do it with things that already exist.