@allquixotic I think that is sweet having a whole Same OS on a tablet kind of item, so all the software, the tweaking, the layout and configuration is exacly the same. Doing winCE and Android, and symbian, i lost days and days re-learning.
@slhck or have a threshold to detect "minor" edits (just a tag change, or a tag change and minimal edits to the text like formatting only) and don't even make a question get bumped to the front page if it's been minorly edited
@slhck er, they show up in the review queue at the top, which is what I click... I don't look at the front page for minor edits to approve
algorithm: look at the raw markdown of the post; disregard tag changes; strip out all markdown formatting, newlines, etc (just for the purposes of determining whether it's minor, don't actually delete the formatting from the post); count the number of remaining characters that have been changed; if it's less than 5, it's a minor edit
@allquixotic Yeah, that could work. But then again… this whole tag thing is so majorly screwed up. I've been thinking about how to improve that for almost two years now.
minor edits would appear in the review queues as normal, but wouldn't get bumped on the front page
I think we should eliminate tags and instead do a full-text search on the body of all posts using an advanced search engine... something like Google Search Appliance would do the trick
I mean when you do a google search through forums, and find the most relevant results in the top 5 results, it's not like forums have to have a "tag" system to let google know what the important words of the question are
it seems like the tags are only present in SE because SE is too cheap to buy a Google Search Appliance or write something that'd be as good at doing full text search as GSA is
seriously, if the only point of tags is to help their search engine, it's not worth so many hours of moderator (diamond and otherwise) time to edit, review, approve, and do periodic tag cleanups all for that
how many people use SE's search anyway? most people who post a question, even fairly "dumb" users, have at least googled it first, and if there were already a question on the site, it'd probably be in the top results on google
besides, tags aren't necessarily the best indicator of what a post is about -- how many questions out there are just tagged windows-8 but are actually about Audacity or OpenOffice, etc?
if the search engine does do full text search, tags aren't necessary... if it doesn't do full text search, then SE is just being lazy, and needs to make it do full text search
@allquixotic tagging for the OS is important, especially if it has been left out of the main text, and I also use the Follow and Avoid features of the tag system, to try and avoid linux questions. (not that linux isnt good, just that I am not into it today)
and I can't tell you how many times, until I got really used to the site, I posted a comment like "please indicate your operating system" when they ONLY posted it in the tags
people should really just put all the pertinent details into the post body, and not try to be clever by tagging it instead
some tags aren't nearly specific enough, too, which gives users a false sense of providing information when in fact they are really not giving enough
like the linux tag -- it's practically meaningless unless your question is directly about the Linux Kernel, in which case 99% of the time it belongs on SO anyway
saying "I'm running Linux" and then proceeding to ask about a specific application on top of some unknown GNU/Linux distro / version does not provide nearly enough information to answer the question with any confidence
