On 11/09/13 02:01 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mittwoch, 11. September 2013, Ben Armstrong wrote: >> I disagree. If you have tags that state the *intended* age range for >> software > > for which culture? Germany? Mongolia? Syria? Iran? US? And then there are sub > cultures in between... You clipped the context, which was central to my point: >> (as defined by upstream) that's an objective classification. Upstream decides who to develop the software for. They might aim to develop software for a certain age range and either fail to make it actually serve that age range well (a bug in the software) or fail to recognize cultural differences. That doesn't make it any less useful to have tags stating upstream's intent. It gives users a starting point for searching for suitable software. Supposing I am looking for software for a child of a certain age, 7. I could start by searching debtags that bracket this age. I could then look next at software in the category above and the category below. And finally I might look at other tags, when the software doesn't indicate an age range. The debtags are useful because they help locate the software my particular 7-year-old might like faster. They are easy to maintain because they depend on the expressed intent of upstream rather than leaving it to us to be the "authority" on which software is suitable for which children. Ben
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