@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Did you decide that any words were so bad in titles that you would contemplate having them blocked completely, or perhaps just warned about?
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> The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. ... A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every …
The closest existing answer I could find to my question states:
Broader announcements not really specific to that community — DEBATABLE
But that was well over 2 years ago. Has there been a more definite consensus on how related the topic of a proposal and graduated site need to be before re...
> Helvetica almost always requires custom kerning to bring out the best. That's something that you cannot do for every word you ever wrote on web.
> Helvetica Neue was recreated for web. It is much better than bare Helvetica; but again it is not as great as many other typefaces crafted for web. And availability is a big problem on Windows.
Such boys as/that/who obtain good marks will be rewarded by the principal.
This is idiomatic.
Such here is a determiner, to be precise a pre-determiner. And the head noun is boys. The noun phrase here is Such boys. The part - as/that/who obtain good marks - is modifying the noun phrase. Th...
> Such was the condition that/as was the treatment.
Oh OP is another man from india :P and he cited those examples from a book that I am not sure everything there is correct. Because I have seen many such exam guide books are full of errors :(
On SO, words like help, problem, question are banned in titles. Certainly the last could not be made to work on a language site, since questions are themselves valid things to ask about.
And the first two do not come up all that often in titles.
I’m going to ask for a complete ban on only grammatically and correct in titles, because questions containing those are more often closed and deleted than not, and because they very, very, very nearly always signal a trivial Boolean yes/no question that is poorly framed and which will never be of any benefit to any future visitor to the site.
SO banned problem in titles for getting just 22% closure rate. Grammatically gets 56% and correct gets 51%. I don’t know the composite metric, though.
I am also contemplating a tag warning for grammar and for grammatically. If those were the same tag, they would be the most commonly used tag on ELU. However, they are strictly meta tags of no great usefulness. Moreover, grammar is very often used wrongly.
Arguments in favor of title or tag warnings over bans is that they never stop false positives, are less draconian, and perhaps lead to better labelling.
However, it’s possible that they don't, and that people just don't read them anyway.
My conjecture is that questions with several tags, one of which is grammar, should simply have grammar removed, and that questions having only grammar as a tag should be relabelled completely.
@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M jinx :)
I have not yet found any obvious cases where my conjecture would not apply.
There is a lot more energy on ELL for site maintenance than on ELU.
We have 38 questions tagged correct. This is a horrible meta-tag that does no good.
It should either be removed altogether and put on the blacklist, or possibly merged into the grammaticality tag.
Critique requests have been off-topic on Writers for some time now. Today, I was looking at this site's help pages and came across this:
This is not the right site for questions about:
Writing advice or critique requests - see writers.stackexchange.com instead.
Thanks for sendin...
The closest existing answer I could find to my question states:
Broader announcements not really specific to that community — DEBATABLE
But that was well over 2 years ago. Has there been a more definite consensus on how related the topic of a proposal and graduated site need to be before re...
Such boys as/that/who obtain good marks will be rewarded by the principal.
This is idiomatic.
Such here is a determiner, to be precise a pre-determiner. And the head noun is boys. The noun phrase here is Such boys. The part - as/that/who obtain good marks - is modifying the noun phrase. Th...
We have 38 questions tagged correct. This is a horrible meta-tag that does no good.
It should either be removed altogether and put on the blacklist, or possibly merged into the grammaticality tag.
