User-defined genre sorts for the games page

[cloakedyoshi]

@colbert2677

if there was real consequence for it, manual intervention via moderation or otherwise

Literally this. I don’t get it. You can have genres/tagging, filtering, and a robust algorithm. They don’t need to be mutually exclusive.

1. Give users filtering options to view experiences by genre/tags
2. Let developers pick one “main genre” for their experience
3. Let developers pick five “sub genres”/tags for their experience
4. Developers can only change an experience’s genre/tags once every 6 months
5. If a developer is found abusing this functionality, they can no longer tag their own experiences and their experiences are fully beholden to the algorithm
6. If a developer does not tag their experience, the algorithm decides
7. The algorithm uses the developer’s tags as input to guide the sorting decision, but is not fully reliant off of it - the only system that would mainly/solely use manual tags is the aforementioned filter

[colbert2677 (ImagineerColbert)]

Introducing Improved Genres and New Subgenres

Hi Creators, Today, we’re excited to share more about the improved genre taxonomy we’re working on, and our plans to roll this out in the coming weeks. Genres can be helpful to inspire users to explore content in existing and new areas of interests. We know that genres also help inspire your creativity. But, genres needed an update. We’ve heard your feedback on this and that you also want agency over the genre assigned to your experience. As previously announced, we’ve been testing genre-spec…

It’s been far too long.