Timeline for Crazy idea about soft questions
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| Mar 24, 2019 at 4:00 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 21, 2014 at 0:30 | comment | added | Christian Chapman | only allow >500 rep users to use the soft-question tag | |
| Oct 24, 2013 at 11:02 | comment | added | stankewicz | I'm suddenly reminded that this is exactly what I did with my question about Neron on the old site. I wasn't sure if it was too soft, so I first proposed it on meta (now tea). tea.mathoverflow.net/discussion/332/a-borderline-question | |
| Oct 18, 2013 at 18:44 | answer | added | fedja | timeline score: 13 | |
| Oct 18, 2013 at 18:04 | comment | added | Amir Asghari | I have no doubt that Noah's suggestion has some merits and comes from a good spirit. But, for the reasons mentioned in my answer and comments of @Kaveh I have down-voted it. | |
| Oct 18, 2013 at 17:23 | comment | added | Kaveh | It is also going to be hard to manage the list after the first 20 or so questions. Newer questions posted in the thread are not likely to be read and voted on much. Aside from these technical issues I personally don't like the idea that a good soft-question would have to wait a few weeks or months before being posted on the main. The positive side is also not clear as it seems to me it would merely move the close wars to meta but with a different set of participants (in place of those with +3K rep anyone with +15 rep would be voting). | |
| Oct 18, 2013 at 17:15 | comment | added | Kaveh | Keep in mind that this would give much more weight to users who regularly visit meta in comparison to those who do not. It will essentially create some kind of editorial board for soft-questions. By the way, what happens if someone directly asks a soft-question on the main site? Are we going to be migrate it to meta or just close it as off-topic? | |
| Oct 18, 2013 at 12:38 | answer | added | Amir Asghari | timeline score: -4 | |
| Oct 17, 2013 at 18:25 | comment | added | Andy Putman | I think this is a really good idea. | |
| Oct 17, 2013 at 17:43 | comment | added | user9072 | @StefanKohl thank you for the idea this could be useful, but alone would be too implict to address my concern, since the observers I have in mind ought to be ignorant about the meta pre-staging and thus presumably would be even more ignorant about fine details in tagging. | |
| Oct 17, 2013 at 17:10 | comment | added | Stefan Kohl Mod | To address @quid's concerns: here on Meta there are moderator-only tags (like e.g. "featured") -- would it be possible to make "soft-question", "big-list" and maybe some others moderator-only tags on Main? | |
| Oct 17, 2013 at 15:22 | comment | added | user9072 | Could be worth a try. I would however suggest that in each of these questions when posted this context is mentioned, otherwise observer will think they can just ask these things as they please. | |
| Oct 17, 2013 at 15:12 | history | edited | Noah Snyder | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 17, 2013 at 14:59 | history | asked | Noah Snyder | CC BY-SA 3.0 |