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1:50 PM

On the subway to work today I saw someone reading a book about motherhood as a scientist that I thought looked interesting from the cover. While I can look at book reviews in lots of places, I was curious if book review type questions are on topic here? Book reviews are, to an extent, opinion, bu...

yo'

@StrongBad How on-topic-ness differ from scope? (Sorry for another question about tags...)

StrongBad

2:10 PM

@yo' I am not sure they are. If you haven't realized, our tags are a nightmare. The tags on meta are way worse than on the main site.

Despite just using on-topic, I like scope better.

yo'

@StrongBad Do you think it makes sense to try to organize them? I mean, is it a reasonable effort?

@StrongBad let's synonymize them then, no? :-)

Meta Academia

2:23 PM

Q: Would there be a way to save this question that generated the weirdest thread I've seen here?

I saw this question: Why not outsource the research projects to phd students? It's so badly formulated that it generated a series of comments and answers that have no real connection with each other. It's closed for the moment, but I think beneath the large confusions in which OP is about what...

discussion on-topic-ness editing closed-questions question-salvaging

StrongBad

2:39 PM

@yo' not unreasonable, just a lot of work. I think there is a meta thread for proposed tag synonyms and tag clean up.

yo'

@StrongBad the problem is: you bump a lot of questions. It should really be possible to have a way to perform massive tag cleanups without cluttering the front page.

StrongBad

3:19 PM

@yo' I think meta.academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1568/… and meta.academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1246/… getat our thoughts on the bump issue.

My thought is that, retagging bumps questions, but the overall cost is worth it.

Meta Academia

3:44 PM

Q: Why did I get the 'User Was Removed' Message?

Why did I get the 'User was removed' message with -10 points? I did not get any negative feedback from any question/answer/comment in the last 6 months.