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Xander Henderson
Xander Henderson
12:14 PM
It may be convenient to have a tag to identify such generalized answers (created on purpose or not), and to present them first in lookups for duplicates in review. Generally speaking, we have ways to identify branches of mathematics and fine-grained subjects, but not much for the quality of questions (upvotes are hardly usable for this purpose), or the 'level' (as in approximate years of curriculum). On the long run, I fell there is too much material and to few ways to filter. — Jean-Claude Arbaut 1 min ago
I rather like the idea of a kind of abstract-duplicate meta-tag, which can be applied to posts which are written to be the target of a large number of dupe closures.
 
Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
@XanderHenderson Isn't the frequent tab (the general one or the one for a specific tag) already a reasonable way to find such posts?
TBH, introducing a new meta tag isn't something I'm too keen on.
 
Xander Henderson
Xander Henderson
12:43 PM
@MartinSleziak I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, I think that tags really ought to relate to the mathematical content of a post. On the other hand, tags are meant to help organize the site, and I think that such a tag would help.
I also think that it would help newbies to understand "This isn't the same question as yours, but it is related, and you can work out your specific answer from here."
I am not sure that the "frequent" tab is quite the right thing, either, as it looks at number of pageviews, no? If a new Q&A is posted as a dupe target, won't it take time to appear on the "frequent" tab?
 
Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
One problem is that there are only five sports for tags. Another one is that I am not sure whether it adds something new to the existing functionality of the frequent tab.
@XanderHenderson As far as I know, pageviews aren't relevant here. The frequent tab is based on the number of the linked questions. (But I'm pretty sure I am just repeating things you're well aware of.)
 
Xander Henderson
Xander Henderson
@MartinSleziak No, that isn't repetition for me. I honestly don't know how the frequent tab works.
To me, it looks like it is related to upvotes and pageviews.
 
Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
 
Xander Henderson
Xander Henderson
@MartinSleziak Thanks. My Google fu way failing miserably.
 
Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
I am a bit surprised that it does not have a tooltip. (It seems there used to be one.)
> If you hover over the tab, the tooltip is "questions with the most links" - that is, with many questions linking to it.
 
Xander Henderson
Xander Henderson
12:49 PM
I sympathize with the "there are only five tag slots" argument, but how many posts really use all five?
Also, I note that we already have a faq tag. Perhaps we should just use that one?
 
Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
I am not exactly sure whether the number of all linked questions comes into play. Or whether only the count of links from other questions to this questions.
The tag faq sounds reasonable. Moreover, it's a tag which has been around for some time.
 
Xander Henderson
Xander Henderson
Indeed, I think that this is precisely what the faq tag is for. Thanks.
 
 
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Teresa Lisbon
Teresa Lisbon
3:34 PM
In terms of action, we should now be looking to put "faq" tags on answers we find general, is that right? Please explain what plan of action we would take to achieve what Jean-Claude wants i.e. generalized answers tagged. I hope that we all agree that this is a common aim for us.
Also can somebody explain how I can reference a tag here i.e. having faq written with the little black backgounrd?
*background
 
 
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Xander Henderson
Xander Henderson
4:48 PM
@TeresaLisbon [tag:<tag name>] creates a tag link.
Similarly, you can use [anchor text](url) to hyperlink.
 
Teresa Lisbon
Teresa Lisbon
Thank you, @XanderHenderson for the input.
 

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