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Re: Listing hashtags by frequency

 

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Thanks to Bruce and Chris for the helpful replies, and sorry for the delay in responding.

In my original message I said: "The assumption was that the most common hashtags would prevail, while odd ones would fall by the wayside", in response to which Bruce said: "An unrealistic assumption, IMHO. For what it's worth, there is no provision for hashtags to 'expire' due to disuse". Just to clarify: I wasn't expecting unused hashtags to expire as such, I just meant they would linger at the bottom of the list, if it was possible to list them by frequency

Bruce also pointed out that the 10 most used hashtags are listed on the group's home page, which I wasn't really aware of, so thanks for drawing my attention to this. On further reflection, although I'm not a programmer, the fact that the top 10 hashtags are listed would suggest that the ability to list hashtags by frequency appears to be already built into the system, so hopefully it wouldn't require rocket science to extend the list from the top 10 to all the hashtags or the top 20 or 30 or whatever? But I may be missing something.

Bruce also suggested that it would be a good suggestion for the beta group. I'm surprised it hasn't already been suggested, but if this is indeed the case, I would be happy to do so.

As Chris implied, it seems clear that, as it stands, the hashtag 'experiment' in the group I was referring to has essentially failed, in the sense that the purpose isn't being achieved, due to: a) the current lack of the ability to list hashtags by frequency, and b) the problem of excessive variants for essentially the same hashtag that Chris pointed out.

By the way, I note that this group also has a list of top 10 hashtags listed at /g/GroupManagersForum, although it isn't clear to me how this list came about

Thanks again.

Herbert Eppel


On 24/04/2025 10:08, Herb Eppel wrote:

In one of the groups I manage we recently introduced mandatory hashtags, although members can create their own hashtags, rather than having to choose from a predefined list.

The assumption was that the most common hashtags would prevail, while odd ones would fall by the wayside. In reality we ended up with more than 300 hashtags, many of them not particularly meaningful and only used once.

I assumed there would be an option to list hashtags by frequency, but this doesn't seem to be the case, as evidenced by the attached screenshot. In other words, the only sorting options I can see are "Name" (i.e. alphabetical or reverse alphabetical) and "Duration" (not sure what this actually does).

Without an option to list the chaotic plethora of hashtags by frequency, the system doesn't seem particularly useful for our group. Am I missing something?

Thank you.

Herbert Eppel
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