Timeline for Proposed contest: let's recognize some generalists!
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| Feb 21, 2019 at 3:09 | history | edited | Monica CellioMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 17, 2019 at 0:23 | comment | added | Cyn | @Galastel. Agreed. But sometimes I have a question in my head and either a search brings it up or a search shows nothing but, after I've titled it and started writing, the system brings up "similar" posts and one turns out to be a dup (even if I used the exact same wording in my search). But what to do if I have the same question and none of the answers are suitable but I just have the same question? I suppose I could edit it and bump it to the top, then maybe give a bounty if nothing else works. But sometimes that isn't the right approach either and it's an ooooold question. | |
| Feb 16, 2019 at 23:52 | comment | added | Galastel supports GoFundMonica | @Cyn If I see a question that's almost a duplicate to what I want to ask, but doesn't have the answer I need, I would usually start formulating my question from "this question is similar, but mine is about particular variant X, that isn't covered in any of the answers", | |
| Feb 16, 2019 at 1:30 | comment | added | Cyn | QUESTION: I've held back on asking a lot of questions I've thought of because they turned out to be duplicates (sometimes old ones) or were a bit more listy or opinion based than we usually like. How much latitude do we have? Unlike with some other sites that can just change particulars and boom it's a brand new question, there's only so many ways you can ask the same thing here. | |
| Feb 16, 2019 at 1:29 | comment | added | Cyn | Count me in. I've been mindful of the Generalist badge while retagging, though of course I don't add tags that aren't warranted. | |
| Feb 13, 2019 at 12:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackWriting/status/1095653951544983553 | ||
| Feb 12, 2019 at 5:23 | comment | added | NofP | @monicacellio you're right! Somehow I missed this detail. | |
| Feb 12, 2019 at 3:18 | comment | added | Monica Cellio Mod | @NofP I don't know how to do it through the API, but the list of tags is sorted by frequency (highest first), so you can scan the list. | |
| Feb 12, 2019 at 1:03 | comment | added | NofP | Could some pious soul with Api skills fish an illustrative list containing some of these tags that need questions? | |
| Feb 10, 2019 at 22:18 | comment | added | Monica Cellio Mod | Those are good points. Maybe we should set a floor at 100, then. I'm inclined to be generous on both ends, including tags that started the contest under 200 or ones that had 100 when the new question was asked. | |
| Feb 10, 2019 at 22:10 | comment | added | Galastel supports GoFundMonica | Tags with considerably fewer than 100 questions won't get us nearer the generalist badge. More questions under those tags would still help the site though, so it's a question of what we're going for. Still, I would set a floor somewhere, in any case; otherwise, one could game the system by creating a new tag and sticking it on the question. | |
| Feb 10, 2019 at 21:50 | comment | added | Monica Cellio Mod | @Galastel I was thinking to count any tag that doesn't yet have 200 questions, rather than setting a floor. More good questions help the site and their tags, after all. (And I agree that we should work out ambiguities before we start!) | |
| Feb 10, 2019 at 21:25 | comment | added | Galastel supports GoFundMonica | And another thing not specified yet: what about tags that are currently in the 90-99 range, and get their 100th question during the time of the contest: are subsequent questions with those tags now eligible too? To be honest, I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other regarding any of those. I'm just looking for things that would need to be clarified: contests with unclear rules get people frustrated. | |
| Feb 10, 2019 at 20:29 | comment | added | Monica Cellio Mod | @Galastel that's a good question. I'm inclined to say one point per question, to avoid arguments over tag-gaming and to encourage more questions, but if you want to write an answer supporting a point per tag, we can see how the community feels. (Also not specified yet: does a tag become ineligible as soon as it reaches 200 questions, or do we list the excluded tags at the beginning of the contest and not worry about the 201st question getting a point? I'm more inclined toward the latter for ease of tracking.) | |
| Feb 10, 2019 at 20:25 | comment | added | user Mod | @Galastel I'm not Monica, but I'd expect one point per question asked with one or more qualifying tags. Otherwise it might be a little too easy to add a few extra tags to artificially inflate one's score. | |
| Feb 10, 2019 at 20:08 | comment | added | Galastel supports GoFundMonica | I will participate. :) Question: if a question has multiple qualifying tags, does it earn 1 point, or 1 point per qualifying tag? | |
| Feb 10, 2019 at 19:53 | history | asked | Monica CellioMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |