Timeline for Acceptance of partial answers
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| Sep 12, 2014 at 14:20 | comment | added | François G. Dorais Mod | @SébastienPalcoux: I think the best solution is to ask a follow-up question and link the two. Anything else would have lesser visibility. | |
| Sep 12, 2014 at 9:17 | comment | added | Sebastien Palcoux | @FrançoisG.Dorais: What's your genuine solution? What do you think about my initial idea of two levels of acceptance? or the idea to put "partially-answered" in the body (with some explanations) for finding the post by using the advanced research option body:"partially-answered". | |
| Sep 12, 2014 at 3:40 | comment | added | François G. Dorais Mod | @SébastienPalcoux and others. I deleted the new tag you created. I don't think the basic idea for the tag was bad, but such tags are not the solution. At best the new tag would be a crutch, it's much preferable to have a genuine solution to an actual problem. | |
| Sep 10, 2014 at 12:02 | comment | added | user9072 | @SébastienPalcoux it is best to let a mod deal with it (only they can remove it without bumping the questions again; FGD mentioned in chat he will comment later). Yes, to edit a note in the body could actually be a good idea. One could use the "keyword" partially answererd (or something linke this) and at the same time add a paragraph what it is precisely that is still missing. This seems appropriate to me. re comments: AFAIK they are not searchable by design The abstract idea here is that everything that is actually important should be an edit to the question or an answer or a new answer. | |
| Sep 10, 2014 at 10:28 | comment | added | Sebastien Palcoux | @quid: if you want to delete this tag, you can (I believe I can't do it that myself). It's an interesting idea to put "partially-answered" in the title (or in the body), because then we can find all such posts by using the advanced research option: title:"partially-answered" (or body:"partially-answered"). In fact it would be simpler to put "partially-answered" in a comment, unfortunately there is no advanced research option for the comments, isn't it? | |
| Sep 9, 2014 at 22:37 | comment | added | user9072 | @SébastienPalcoux I am sorry, I have no proposal at the moment. Still, the tagging system should not be used in this way. If you feel you must do something right now edit the title of the question something like that. (I do not propose to do this it is just relatively less harmful.) | |
| Sep 9, 2014 at 22:33 | comment | added | Sebastien Palcoux | @quid: what do you propose instead? | |
| Sep 9, 2014 at 22:23 | comment | added | user9072 | @SébastienPalcoux for the "open-problem" : it is first around since a very long time when these things were not that clear, second some (me for example) try/ied to change its use but things are moving slowly, third it is still a difference to indicate that something is about a (well-known) open problem as opposed to it being just some question that is not yet fully answered on this site. In any case please do not tag any further question with this partiall answered tag for now. Finally, I for one do not really like some of the other metaish tags either but it is hard to get rid of them now. | |
| Sep 7, 2014 at 19:42 | comment | added | Sebastien Palcoux | @RicardoAndrade: you're right, except for 'open-problem' which is quite close to 'paritally-answered', in fact 'open-problem' is described by: << If it turns out that a problem is equivalent to a known open problem, then the open-problem tag is added. >> Anyway, my initial proposal was to create two levels of acceptance, but such a tag is a simpler solution, so if you (and the community) disagree, then I'm ok for deleting this tag, but then are you agree with my initial proposal? Else, what do you propose? | |
| Sep 7, 2014 at 19:13 | comment | added | Ricardo Andrade | Dear @Sébastien Palcoux, there is a big difference between the tags you mention and the tag 'partially-answered'. The tags 'open-problem', 'big-list', 'reference-request', 'soft-question' give some information on the type or subject of the question, while 'partially-answered' attempts to describe the present status of the thread. This is traditionally not the role tags play. In fact, I cannot think of a single tag on the main site whose purpose is to describe the status of the thread. | |
| Sep 6, 2014 at 20:26 | comment | added | Sebastien Palcoux | @StefanKohl: if this meta tag is not accepted by the community, then the problem is still open. Some meta tags are well-accepted: open-problem, big-list, reference-request, soft-question... | |
| Sep 6, 2014 at 20:07 | comment | added | Michal R. Przybylek | @SébastienPalcoux, there are a lot of problems with the current tag system. A smart person should perhaps create a proposal for hierarchical tags. I usually do not spend much time on MO and restrict my attention to category theory, and, sometimes, to logic. So, for example, when someone uses tag "monoidal-category" without tag "category-theory" it is very likely that I will miss his question. | |
| Sep 6, 2014 at 20:03 | comment | added | Stefan Kohl Mod | @SébastienPalcoux: I think "partially-answered" would qualify as a meta tag. -- At least as I understand, the use of meta tags is rather not encouraged. | |
| Sep 6, 2014 at 18:53 | comment | added | Sebastien Palcoux | I've just created this tag. | |
| Sep 6, 2014 at 18:50 | comment | added | Sebastien Palcoux | The creation of the tag "partially-answered" is an interesting idea. I'm not sure that it is really usable: for example some questions has already the maximum number of tags. Nevertheless, I'm agree for trying to use this tag. | |
| Sep 6, 2014 at 18:34 | history | answered | Michal R. Przybylek | CC BY-SA 3.0 |