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Should we optimize the tags both for "connecting experts with questions" and for search engines to better index the questions? The above Help page mentions: Because the tags appear below the question and tags are indexed by search engines along with the content of your question, you can trust th...
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@BillDubuque Indeed - some curation of material would be useful, but is little incentivised, and sometimes - eg retagging - has unfortunate effects. — Mark Bennet 1 hour ago
Does somebody know what are the "unfortunate effects of retagging" - mentioned in the above comment?
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I have actually put some bounties on these posts in the past, to remind the issue: Could we have the ability to mark a change as minor in questions or answers? and Allow non-bumping minor edits, but review them on /review But I think it isn't really that likely that Stack Exchange is going to implement such thing.
Also, I don't thing that older question should be considered, in a sense, as "lower class citizens". If there are some improvements, they should be done. And also they deserve to get some attention.
@MarkBennet In any case, I certainly agree that bumping many questions at the same time should be avoided, as recommended on meta: How much bumping is too much?
In fact I remember that I used to check how many old posts were bumped recently when I was about to do some retagging. Maybe I should get back to that habit again.
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@MartinSleziak I'm not sure, but if it bumps current questions so they don't get seen or considered that is unhelpful. On the other hand the long-term benefit of having good tags is positive. Might it be possible to declare a "site maintenance" day every so often - maybe out of term time and away from end of year revision - people could still ask questions but would be notified they might get less attention. And improving the tags on questions would be encouraged ... ?
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@MarkBennet I have seen such suggestions in chat, but I doubt something like that is really feasible.
in Mathematics, Nov 16 '11 at 3:00, by Srivatsan
They must make one day in 3 months an "edit day", where we could edit all we like. =)
As I said, to me the option to make non-bumping minor edits seemed like a better solution. (After all, such suggestion gained some support on various meta sites.)
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