Timeline for community-faq is a useless meta tag primarily serving the older users
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| Mar 23, 2015 at 16:30 | comment | added | fixer1234 | @random: A little more clutter later, but a better working solution until then. It's a tradeoff. Plus, we will then already have identified/created more canonical Q&A to populate the eventual solution. | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 16:24 | comment | added | random Mod | Part of the discussion is to put a stop to adding more questions under the tag. Eventually to remove it, but to say we shouldn't delete the tag as we work out a better solution, to then go and add boilerplates and tags to more questions seems like creating clutter for later on. | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 16:16 | comment | added | fixer1234 | @random: I agree that a new user isn't going to use a meta tag to find canonical answers. Short of an easy access tab for easy to find standard answers, there isn't a good solution for new users. Searching for those answers can be a challenge for any user who isn't fluent in using the search options. Right now, we don't have a great solution for most users, new or otherwise. My suggestion is to delay closing community-faq until a good solution is in place, and encourage building the collection there; it's a way to more quickly ID those answers without re-reviewing many relevant ones each time. | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 13:07 | comment | added | random Mod | With how you describe the use of the tag, how would that not be the same as "you must read this list before going further into the site"? If a user wants the answer to securely wiping an HDD, why should they care that it has a meta tag, when the quality of the Q&A would show if it's worth reading or not? | |
| Mar 22, 2015 at 19:45 | history | answered | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |