@another'Homosapien' @another'Homosapien' all biases aside (:p), I agree that photos associated with posts is one of the more intriguing ideas that came out of your meta post. In other words, it might be the one that garners the most community support from various sites.
(Though I would say additional super/subscript functionality would be even more popular, but no point in pursuing something that @WYSIWYG said already failed before).
I would think that my "Species ID question template" suggestion (specifically, the expand the "How to Ask" instruction box) would be a good feature request internally (i.e., in our own bio.meta site.
But if you and others think that the photo search idea is good enough, I could expand upon it and submit it as a formal feature request on the main meta site.
I welcome feedback from the mods / other experienced users concerning that topic, though.
@theforestecologist I think I mentioned this in chat before, but the thing that kills this feature is that the tags are usually selected after the post body is written. You can't add the template if there is already text there.
What could easily work is to add a tag warning to the identification tag, you can add a few lines of text there to tell people which information they should add
@MadScientist right. I agree. But I think a modified proposal that just emphasizes expanded "How to Ask" boxes in general would be nice. I'm sure close to 0% of new users go to the help pages, so putting more info/links where people can actually see them would be great!
go to stackoverflow.com and add ask a question, add the sql tag. There'll be a popup that adds some hints. That is something that is already implemented and could be easily added here on biology
This doesn't need any developer time, just an SE employee to add the tag warning. But they like to see a meta post with some community support to make sure the change makes sense and is supported by the community.
Spread the word. In less than a week, this site will undergo a private beta evaluation. I had to postpone the pro tem nomination thread — typically posted today — because there simply isn't a large enough community signed on to support this site.
We need to increase your numbers. Typically we ne...
One of my numerous proposals from the Redesigning Biology Stack Exchange Bio.Meta post was to create a template or instruction guide for species-identification questions.
The goal is to improve the inclusion rate of info necessary for typical ID questions.
User @Mad-Scientist suggested in ch...
I just didn't want to do that to my promotion of the bioinformatics site since it isn't really about this site, as such. I'll ask one of the local mods to pin it if they don't mind though :)
Which reminds me, @WYSIWYG the bioinformatics site needs posts! Come back!
One of my numerous proposals from the Redesigning Biology Stack Exchange Bio.Meta post was to create a template or instruction guide for species-identification questions.
The goal is to improve the inclusion rate of info necessary for typical ID questions.
User @Mad-Scientist suggested in ch...
