Rate limiting controlling how often users can make Discussions posts and replies
I'm once again asking how exactly this works. So The Complete Rate-Limiting Guide can be updated.
In the rare case that a Discussion post loses all of its tags via automated tag cleanup processes, it will be tagged as “untagged”.
Kind of off-topic, but if a tag like untagged goes to zero questions and gets deleted, will its usage guidance be gone the next time it's created? I wrote a basic one, but I'm curious whether it'd survive if the tag dies and comes back. My attempt at a tag wiki / usage guidance:
Do not use this tag. This is a system placeholder used if the tags a post is using are removed/destroyed by a system tag removal. Non-locked, on-topic posts with this tag should be edited to be given an appropriate tag.
Routing programming-specific Discussions posts (that really should be questions) over to Staging Ground
Nice idea. So when is work on Staging Ground continuing?
Will discussion flags start counting toward flag stats and flagging bans? Currently, to my knowledge, they do not.
Right now, this group consists of Stack Exchange site moderators, Recognized Members from community-managed collectives, and users who’ve been highly engaged with Discussions by offering feedback and putting effort toward curating the content
What training material is given to recognized members so they know how to moderate discussions and operate the moderator tooling?
What exactly do you mean by "curating the content"? Last I checked, discussions are not editable. And what else is there to do to "curate" other than flagging?
We are seeing roughly 35% higher retention rate among contributors of Discussions vs Q&A
Did you count the spammers? I'm sure they'd love to come back again.
This shows that there is an appetite for this type of lower stakes contribution within the community
My question is whether the average content here is short-term-value or long-term-value
How can new users be guided toward creating a successful Discussions post?
Put the instructions in normal size font at the top of the posting page instead of in small font in the sidebar.
Better yet, put the button to begin drafting a discussion post solely at the bottom of the instructions help center page, and make the current "Start Discussion" button instead link to the help center page.