Timeline for Creating a "math.SE needs your help" thread
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| Nov 3, 2014 at 10:29 | comment | added | Fred Daniel Kline | I suggest a moderator-inserted meta-tag, Herculean, to indicate that a smart/tough solution is needed. This meta-tag would be available on MO and math.SE for anyone to select just as she would select her favorites. Perhaps, a script similar to interesting could become available to allow book-marking these searches. | |
| Oct 28, 2014 at 22:08 | comment | added | user9072 | There are mod only tags (only) on meta (the red ones, like status-[something] and featured). I mm afraid I do not really understand the second part of your comment. | |
| Oct 28, 2014 at 19:14 | comment | added | The Masked Avenger | My (likely faulty) impression is that there are tags only moderators or trusted users can apply, and everyone else can only request. The overflow tag (you can change the name later) would be used as a moderator tool to improve the MSE site. If you don't want MSE moderators mucking about on MO meta, have them post a list and update it on MSE meta and announce its existence on MO.meta. | |
| Oct 28, 2014 at 7:21 | comment | added | user9072 | to have some feature for extending a question to other sites which would be exactly what is the intent here. Anyway, if one wants features for indicating level and/or suitability for another site one should ask for them. To use tags for this would be a terrible hack and create all kinds of odd side-effects. To name just one example: what to do with things tagged impropertly (in the general opinion) with this tag? Untag or leave it? Who decides? How? There is no structure in place and each change bumps. Let the edit wars begin... :-) @GerryMyerson | |
| Oct 28, 2014 at 7:20 | comment | added | user9072 | @GerryMyerson there may be still some meta tags around, but on the one hand there is some effort to get rid of them, and on the other hand the proposed one is really on the bad end as it is supposed to indicate level/difficulty/interest This is completely against the intent of the tags, much more so than say reference-request to name a prominent meta tag. If one wants such an indicator one could ask for it a separate feature. Indeed I think this was done, likely more than once, and declined. In fact I have a vague recollection there even was the specific idea tossed around on MSE (then MSO) | |
| Oct 28, 2014 at 5:46 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | @Gerry: Perhaps tag your last comment with [soft-comment]? :-) | |
| Oct 28, 2014 at 1:32 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | Discouraged they may be, but meta-tags are alive and well, on MO and on m.se, and (in moderation, and not to the exclusion of subject tags) quite useful. | |
| Oct 27, 2014 at 17:40 | comment | added | user9072 | The later, as Arthur Fischer explains. | |
| Oct 27, 2014 at 17:16 | comment | added | user642796 | This would be a meta-tag (it doesn't give any information about the subject of the question), the use of which is quite discouraged across the SE network. | |
| Oct 27, 2014 at 16:24 | comment | added | The Masked Avenger | @quid Interesting. Is it a misuse because of the suggested tag name? Or is it a misuse to classify things by level of difficulty? | |
| Oct 27, 2014 at 16:08 | comment | added | user9072 | This would be misuse of tags that should be avoided. | |
| Oct 27, 2014 at 15:59 | history | answered | The Masked Avenger | CC BY-SA 3.0 |