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My concern is that while I program in C, Python, ARM assembler, AWK, Bash and more, I'm not really drawn to articles specifically tagged with those things. I'm drawn to things that transcend any particular language, and are about bigger ideas.

I don't see how tagging can work at all.

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> I'm drawn to things that transcend any particular language

You have control over it. You can add to your filter tags "algorithms", "programming", "compilers" and see more wide set of posts. In addition, you can exclude posts with unwanted tags. For example, you can see posts with the tag "web-development" except posts with tags "php", "asp.net" etc.

This was completely unclear to me from your site, although having re-visited it's less unclear. It's certainly unclear what tags exist, how you deal with synonyms, how I edit my tags, whether I can change the order of filter-out and filter-in, and so on.

You need a much better interface to the editing of the tag-based filters.

And content.

Another question - suppose there's an item about an algorithm in PHP. How do I know it will get given the "algorithm" tag? How are tags assigned/chosen?

It's about filtering posts submitted by users on Tagmask. Tagmask is a community site for programmers. So, content should be created by users. It's a problem of chicken and egg.

> How are tags assigned/chosen?

If you submit a post you should give it correct tags. For example, if you submit a post about some algorithm on PHP you should attach to it tags "php" and "algorithm". And in this way any user who subscribed to tag "php" or "algorithm" will see it in his feed.

If I see an article and I think it's mis-tagged, what can I do about it?

For now, nothing. It's a problem of the user who submitted the post. If he submits a post about "node.js" and give it just tags "programming" and "web-development", it's just his problem because people who are interested in node.js will not see his post. And, probably, it also means that quality of a post is not so good.