I, the brand new user of Stacker News, am looking to participate in discussions of my favorite hockey team, amongst other things that interest me.. As I make an account, I quickly create a lightning login account, click next, and some labels pop up.. I'm being asked to select labels that may be of interest to me. I choose some basic ones... they offered me some options to dig deeper into some of the different labels but I just want to browse so I've made some choices and left the preselected labels selected.

After clicking next, I'm browsing the home page... I would see posts that are trending with labels like [Sports] and [Gaming] and [Art] and [Politics] and [Science] and [Technology] and [Economics].

I click on the label [Sports] under one of the posts and I'm brought to a new page of posts all labelled with [Sports] including [NFL] and [MLS] and [Cricket] and [Ice Hockey] and [Boxing] and so on.

I click on a [Ice Hockey] label on a post and same thing, Now all posts I see are trending posts labelled with [Ice Hockey]... I can search these posts by top of the / most trending / most discussed / most... of the [choice of time frame] Like every other time I am reading through similarly labeled posts. While browsing [Ice Hockey], I see trending posts labeled with [NHL] and [SHL] and [KHL] and [OHL]. I click on [NHL].

I see posts with labels including [NewYorkRangers] and [BostonBruins] and [VegasGoldenKnights]... I click on [NewYorkRangers] and see trending posts with this label. I have arrived at the content I was seeking and have found the discussions I am looking for. I follow the [NewYorkRangers] label. When I follow it, I'm suggested a few other labels that users who follow [NewYorkRangers] also follow, including [NHL], [IceHockey]+[Prospect]+[Analysis], and [NewYorkJets]. I like to geek out about the draft so I'll also follow the [IceHockey]+[Prospect]+[Analysis] labelchain.

I go back to home page and begin browsing whatever content I am interested in. I start following labels that interest me. I follow [Advanced]+[Bitcoin]+[ColdCard]+[Tutorial]. I also follow [Advanced]+[Tutorial], so I'll see any post that has both labels on it. I follow [Historical]+[Japanese]+[Art] and [Modern]+[InteriorDesign]. I click on the 'trending labels' tab and It shows me info on how popular certain tags are, historical data on when certain combinations became popular. Other labelchains that may be of interest to me.

As I continue to use the website, I organize my lists of labels so I can easily sort through what I want to see with ease. Users share their own personal Labelchains. Some have them directly available on their user profile page and I can just click on it and see his exact feed on SN with all of his interests. I can save his labelchain and anyone elses and swap between them when I feel like my own feed is getting stale. When I see a label I like while I'm browsing someone else's feed, I can click a button that says Save to --> skreepchain #2 --> List --> Politics, or whatever you know?

Also, last thing, the creation of labels should be in some way crowdfunded so they are determined and not all over the place. You don't want users to create [Funny] and [Funnnny] and [Fuuunnny] and [funnnnnny] and [fffunny] and [ffuuunnnyy] and [fuunyyy] to be labels... you'd just want [Funny].... Then maybe one day a streamer who goes by [fffunny] comes along and his community wants to fund the tag to distinguish that particular content. Ultimately, you want determined tags the community has approved and actually wants to use.

I'd imagine users could place a deposit on a label proposal which would need X amount of users to donate a small amount in order to make that a label. Users could even go to a tab of the website where they see a label proposal board, where they pledge maybe 100 sats and pre-follow labels that have been proposed by users. This way the Label system could grow naturally. You could reward users for being founders with a special emblem. Funding for the label could even then be a pool that is used to reward users who post with the newly approved label to kickstart activity using that label.

In this process, you could determine ties to other labels, as in [IceHockey] and [NHL] are bound, just as [NHL] and [BostonBruins] are tied, but has nothing to do with [InteriorDesign]. This gives opportunity to determine community consensus on spelling/formatting and what should be and shouldn't be chained together and what is or isn't acceptable for this website (a profane label would never make it past proposal, and it would be like putting money in a fire lol...)