Can we have home-work tag for QA?
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Do you think the homework cheaters would actually bother to use it? :suss: Or should be be able to flag it after the fact?
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Tim Craig wrote:
Or should be be able to flag it after the fact?
That's a whole other ball of wax. Although, other sites, like AllExperts.com, do allow people to categorize and reject questions according to various options (not really a question, homework question, etc.). That might be a useful feature. It would at least inform the user of why nobody is answering their question.
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Users won't very probably use it, but people that can "Improve" could do it (saving time for other users).
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That would be neat if other users could tag questions as "homework question" and so on, then we could use the custom view to filter out questions with those tags. Perhaps only allow silver members and above to use certain tags.
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That would be neat if other users could tag questions as "homework question" and so on, then we could use the custom view to filter out questions with those tags. Perhaps only allow silver members and above to use certain tags.
Improve question is already only allowed for certain members (up to a grade of reputation). And that allow the improver to change subject, content, tag... So just adding the homework tag would be enough, the rest is already working.
Regards. -------- M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Improve question is already only allowed for certain members (up to a grade of reputation). And that allow the improver to change subject, content, tag... So just adding the homework tag would be enough, the rest is already working.
Regards. -------- M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
Also, the ability to filter away questions based on tag is not yet a feature... as far as I know, you can only show questions based on their tags (rather than hide them based on their tags). For example, it would be neat to say:
Show me all questions with any of these tags:
C#
WPF
SQL
But exclude any questions that also contain any of these tags:
Homework Question
Work Request -
Also, the ability to filter away questions based on tag is not yet a feature... as far as I know, you can only show questions based on their tags (rather than hide them based on their tags). For example, it would be neat to say:
Show me all questions with any of these tags:
C#
WPF
SQL
But exclude any questions that also contain any of these tags:
Homework Question
Work RequestOh, sorry I didn't understand your point. You are right, that is not done yet. I thought you was meaning the ability to change the question tag from one to another.
Regards. -------- M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Or is there a place where I can create new tags?
Best wishes, Navaneeth
We'll allow new tags to be created soon.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Also, the ability to filter away questions based on tag is not yet a feature... as far as I know, you can only show questions based on their tags (rather than hide them based on their tags). For example, it would be neat to say:
Show me all questions with any of these tags:
C#
WPF
SQL
But exclude any questions that also contain any of these tags:
Homework Question
Work RequestIn the works ;)
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Tim Craig wrote:
Or should be be able to flag it after the fact?
That's a whole other ball of wax. Although, other sites, like AllExperts.com, do allow people to categorize and reject questions according to various options (not really a question, homework question, etc.). That might be a useful feature. It would at least inform the user of why nobody is answering their question.
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In the forums I hang out in regularly, the homework seekers are told why their question isn't going to be answered. :-\
You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
It would probably be useful to tell them once why their question isn't going to be answered, tagging it as "homework question", then allowing the regulars here to filter out those questions so they don't all have to see them.
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It would probably be useful to tell them once why their question isn't going to be answered, tagging it as "homework question", then allowing the regulars here to filter out those questions so they don't all have to see them.
aspdotnetdev wrote:
It would probably be useful to tell them once why their question isn't going to be answered
If only they'd get the hint after being slammed with it once.... :laugh:
You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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aspdotnetdev wrote:
It would probably be useful to tell them once why their question isn't going to be answered
If only they'd get the hint after being slammed with it once.... :laugh:
You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Well, if they keep asking questions like that and they keep going unanswered, I imagine they'll eventually give up.
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Or is there a place where I can create new tags?
Best wishes, Navaneeth
N a v a n e e t h wrote:
Can we have home-work tag for QA?
Ditto. Luckily I read your post title before doing my own (and being flamed... :~). I would ask for a 'gimme-codez' tag too. :)
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