Word cloud for roleplay tags

[welian]

You ever seen a word cloud? It's basically a chart that measures how often you use a particular word, and the more often it's used, the bigger and closer to the middle of the chart that word is. If it's possible to implement, I think it'd be pretty dandy to have a word cloud for tags in the roleplay forums, especially in the search forums. I think it would help users find roleplays based on common tags. It can be hard to find roleplays sometimes now that we don't have the simple/casual/detailed prefixes, but I think something like a word cloud, or some sort of visible list of the top fifty tags in the roleplay forums would help create some sort of... sort of a meta, I think, an unofficial but voluntary system of tags.


Ultimately, I'd like to see the site get to a point where tags are fairly standardized, because it would improve the roleplaying experience (imo). For example: if you're running a roleplay in a school setting, what tag is more popular? "School" or "Academy"? Are people using the Japanese or the English name for their anime fandom roleplay?


Maybe more complex searches can be set up as well, such as "+post-apocalyptic -zombies" for post-apocalyptic roleplays that do not involve zombies.

 

[Fable]

I don't think a word cloud is needed.  Rather to just have perhaps a place where it lists the most commonly used tags.  Word clouds can get messy and not many people actually get the concept.  I also find that word clouds are more for an artistic use than actual functionality.  I just used a word cloud generator using Lorem Ipsum and got this:

It's just a bit too cluttered to be helpful in my opinion.

 

[The Mechanist]

Maybe something a bit more organized than that headache in the post above me, preferable alphabetized and maybe in a chart format 

 

[welian]

Alphabetized is a no-go, you'd want to order tags by usage for best effect.  The word cloud posted is a good example of what one looks like, however, that particular one is definitely a bit cluttered. Loren ipsum, like a lot of filler text, is designed to not repeat any particular word too much. The result of that is when you make a word cloud with filler text, you ;all the variation that most other "real" texts would have,


The best example of a word cloud that I'm imagining is from Wikipedia:

 

[Fable]

@welian Your image isn't working for me.

 

[The Mechanist]

Hmmm I work better with charts but that's just me, I would love to see your example though 

 

[IctoraPost]

Maybe something like this?

 

[welian]

I'm on mobile and out of town so I can't really repair my post, but @IctoraPost is right on the money with what I was imagining.

 

[The Mechanist]

Ok now that is a lot better, I rub my cheeks in happiness at the lines that are there