@orthocresol Maybe, maybe not. Questions like this could be fodder for canonical
Until they get a canonical answer, they could be tagged needs-canonical
(I know, yuck, more meta-tags)
But there seems to be general community support for some form of canonical, and having OPs provide the prompts for them may be useful.
To my mind, "I'm confused, can you tell me how to {method}?" is much less odious than "HEER, HAV PROBLM, DO {method} FOR MEEZ ANSR NOW PLZ"
The real frustration of "I'm confused, can you tell me how to {method}?" questions is the sinking-gut sensation that the same question is liable to come up over and over again, and nobody wants to type up the same @%&$( thing fifty times a month.
What would be great is some sort of site-based incentive for writing up canonicals.
Maybe a standing offer from hi-reppers for a 200 rep bounty for anyone whose answer on a needs-canonical is the first to hit +15 score or something?
Maybe sort of a patronage system, where people declare their intent to award a prize bounty of whatever amount to such an answerer.
And @M.A.R., the idea was (at least) twofold: (1) declutter the feed, and (2) make it so it's easy to scan the room history for posts that haven't been dealt with
Now that I realize I can post-edit to-Trash messages, then it adds (3) documentation of what was done.
Just reply and link to the message from feeds and the mods do the editing later. It probably doesn't take long until someone is around with the power.
There shouldn't be any special privileges necessary for tag edits. They just have to be approved and my experience says that's being done very quickly.
@hBy2Py yes. The transcript here should be: this is the question we're dealing with, this is our discussion, this is the result. It's transparent for anyone interested and provides enough evidence for what decisions have been made and why.
However, I like the onebox being removed, because then any remaining BIG FAT ONEBOXES IN CHAT are clear signs that "this question has not been dealt with".
yeah precisely. That way, the only difference is that the message comes from your user acc, instead of from the feeds acc. But that is hardly a problem.
Add a new row at the bottom with your username on the left
then shade the relevant cells for the times when you're fully available, or insert the appropriate symbol for times when you're intermittently avaialble
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@heather Any question that the bot posts into this room is a candidate for cleanup.
Usually, that entails removing the [reaction] or [homework] tag, adding relevant tags, and editing other bits and pieces (if necessary).
Once you've cleaned up some question, reply to the feeds message with a short summary of what you did. A mod will edit the feeds message to reflect that action.
@Hexacoordinate-C I think this is a candidate for blatant off-topic...
Oh.. it's already been closed as blatant off-topic...
I think the retagging bit is most important. Remove bad tags, add good tags. Cleaning up mathjax, etc. is secondary. As much as people like to say "make substantial edits", you should not be forced to put in excess effort if you don't want to, especially if the question is likely to be closed.