tea.mathoverflow.net - Discussion Feed (Request: ignoring specific questions?) Sun, 04 Nov 2018 13:42:18 -0800 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.9 & Feed Publisher Harry Gindi comments on "Request: ignoring specific questions?" (1957) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1957#Comment_1957 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1957#Comment_1957 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:08:37 -0800 Harry Gindi Is there any way to change the color for interesting tags? That yellow looks really bad with the rest of the color scheme. Maybe you could change the text color instead of the background color? Say, make interesting questions have blue text rather than a yellow background?

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Anton Geraschenko comments on "Request: ignoring specific questions?" (1955) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1955#Comment_1955 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1955#Comment_1955 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:43:54 -0800 Anton Geraschenko Okay, questions with both ignored and interested tags should now be displayed even if you've set the preference to hide questions with ignored tags, but they'll still appear slightly opaque.

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Anton Geraschenko comments on "Request: ignoring specific questions?" (1954) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1954#Comment_1954 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1954#Comment_1954 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:32:22 -0800 Anton Geraschenko @CSiegel: It will be grayed out and highlighted. I think if you're set the user pref to hide ignored tags, then it won't appear, but I should be able to change that in css.

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CSiegel comments on "Request: ignoring specific questions?" (1953) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1953#Comment_1953 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1953#Comment_1953 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:17:49 -0800 CSiegel Anton Geraschenko comments on "Request: ignoring specific questions?" (1949) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1949#Comment_1949 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1949#Comment_1949 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:40:51 -0800 Anton Geraschenko Harry's deleted suggestion was to retag the question with something like [anton-ignored] and add that tag to my ignored list. I agree with everybody that it would be unacceptable to actually do that, so let's not do it. The [tag-removed] tag is primarily a handy way for a moderator to remove an unwanted tag (e.g. [newbie]) from the system by merging the undesirable tag into [tag-removed], but you can also use it when you want to remove an inappropriate tag from a question, but there aren't any other tags that fit.

I've voted up Qiaochu's request. Another idea that I was discussing with somebody (Scott?) a while ago is a user preference to ignore any question that you've voted down. I feel like private tags would be feature creep.

@fedja: I'm not sure if this is what you want, but you can check the "hide ignored tags" box in your user preferences page to make it so that questions with ignored tags don't appear at all (rather than just being grayed out).

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Harry Gindi comments on "Request: ignoring specific questions?" (1944) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1944#Comment_1944 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1944#Comment_1944 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:53:56 -0800 Harry Gindi Whence came the suggestion of private or at least local tagging.

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Andrew Stacey comments on "Request: ignoring specific questions?" (1943) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1943#Comment_1943 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1943#Comment_1943 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:47:13 -0800 Andrew Stacey I think I now have enough information to recreate Harry's deleted suggestion ...

Hmm, interesting idea. It sort of has the ring of the "Journal of Stuff I Like" (some post on "God Plays Dice" a year or so ago). I could decide that if Greg Kuperberg thinks a question isn't worth looking at then I'm not going to look at it either, ditto a few others that use the site. I can see some potential for that idea.

Except that, of course, it wouldn't work because the system isn't designed to be used that way and there are too many changes that would need to be made to ensure the system wasn't abused.

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fedja comments on "Request: ignoring specific questions?" (1941) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1941#Comment_1941 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1941#Comment_1941 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:10:49 -0800 fedja Harry Gindi comments on "Request: ignoring specific questions?" (1936) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1936#Comment_1936 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1936#Comment_1936 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:53:29 -0800 Harry Gindi The mitigating factor here was that the question had -2 votes and was as Gr\'etar said, "admittedly bad".

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Pete L. Clark comments on "Request: ignoring specific questions?" (1935) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1935#Comment_1935 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1935#Comment_1935 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:39:43 -0800 Pete L. Clark
It's not for me to police the site or make policy decisions. We need to hear from the moderators whether this sort of behavior is considered appropriate. ]]>
Harry Gindi comments on "Request: ignoring specific questions?" (1934) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1934#Comment_1934 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1934#Comment_1934 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:58:14 -0800 Harry Gindi No, I retagged it because it's going to be closed and the tag was wrong in the first place. If anything, it was probability, not combinatorics, and now it's tag-removed. No harm, no foul. The worst I did was switch out an incorrect tag for a now correct tag. I mean, I removed the tag, so it's tag-removed, right?

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Grétar Amazeen comments on "Request: ignoring specific questions?" (1933) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1933#Comment_1933 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1933#Comment_1933 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:26:44 -0800 Grétar Amazeen Well I disagree with Pete that Harry should have deleted the post, I think that is a bit much. I however think you Harry have come quite close to doing what you suggested, and I'm not sure what to think about it. In this example you retagged it as "tag-removed" and in the comments you say

I retagged this because I have tag-removed blocked, and this question's going to be closed soon anyway.

I think you may have somewhat crossed a line there since you're retagging (an admittedly bad) question, just to serve your own purpose.

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Harry Gindi comments on "Request: ignoring specific questions?" (1876) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1876#Comment_1876 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1876#Comment_1876 Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:27:42 -0800 Harry Gindi
For those of you who missed it: I didn't do anything wrong, but I came up with an exploit that would allow a person to block certain questions, but this exploit seemed too dangerous, so I deleted any mention of it. ]]>
Pete L. Clark comments on "Request: ignoring specific questions?" (1872) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1872#Comment_1872 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1872#Comment_1872 Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:40:10 -0800 Pete L. Clark Grétar Amazeen comments on "Request: ignoring specific questions?" (1870) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1870#Comment_1870 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1870#Comment_1870 Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:32:44 -0800 Grétar Amazeen I agree with Marino, that's way to dirty.

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Mariano comments on "Request: ignoring specific questions?" (1869) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1869#Comment_1869 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1869#Comment_1869 Sat, 16 Jan 2010 06:52:24 -0800 Mariano Harry, that is certainly not a viable option

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Scott Morrison comments on "Request: ignoring specific questions?" (1850) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1850#Comment_1850 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1850#Comment_1850 Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:21:50 -0800 Scott Morrison @Sonia,

  1. No one is updating the sticky post because no one has got around to it. Feel free to add links to mathoverflow specific feature requests you've seen elsewhere.
  2. If you post a feature request on meta.SE (not meta.SO -- that's the Stackoverflow equivalent of this site), and post it in our sticky thread, I'll happily vote it up even if I don't particularly agree with the need for the request! (That applies to all mathoverflow residents, of course.)
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Andrew Stacey comments on "Request: ignoring specific questions?" (1820) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1820#Comment_1820 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1820#Comment_1820 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:14:39 -0800 Andrew Stacey Just as on MO, you can build up reputation by asking sensible questions that others then vote for. "Sensible questions" can be bug reports or feature requests, amongst other things. Also, if you don't have enough rep to leave a comment then you can always leave an answer (just say "Since I don't have enough rep to comment, ...") and if it's something worth saying, someone'll probably vote for it. Do that a couple of times and you'll have enough rep to vote for feature requests and the like, which is probably all most of us want to do on meta.SE.

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Harry Gindi comments on "Request: ignoring specific questions?" (1819) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1819#Comment_1819 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1819#Comment_1819 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:59:08 -0800 Harry Gindi Sonia Balagopalan comments on "Request: ignoring specific questions?" (1817) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1817#Comment_1817 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1817#Comment_1817 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:20:21 -0800 Sonia Balagopalan 1. Why is no one updating the sticky post on feature requests?
2. How do I build up enough rep to vote on meta.SO, as I have nothing to contribute to the questions there? ]]>
Qiaochu Yuan comments on "Request: ignoring specific questions?" (1810) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1810#Comment_1810 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1810#Comment_1810 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:51:01 -0800 Qiaochu Yuan I've posted the question on meta.SE: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3710/is-there-a-way-to-ignore-specific-questions

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Andrew Stacey comments on "Request: ignoring specific questions?" (1807) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1807#Comment_1807 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1807#Comment_1807 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:31:40 -0800 Andrew Stacey This sort of thing sounds like it needs to be in the code (Anton will know better but I guess he's a bit busy with the AMS/MAA meeting at the moment) so you should see if someone's requested this feature over on meta.SE. If so, vote for it. If not, request it yourself.

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Harry Gindi comments on "Request: ignoring specific questions?" (1805) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1805#Comment_1805 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1805#Comment_1805 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:10:01 -0800 Harry Gindi Pete L. Clark comments on "Request: ignoring specific questions?" (1796) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1796#Comment_1796 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1796#Comment_1796 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:11:00 -0800 Pete L. Clark Noah Snyder comments on "Request: ignoring specific questions?" (1781) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1781#Comment_1781 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1781#Comment_1781 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:38:10 -0800 Noah Snyder Qiaochu Yuan comments on "Request: ignoring specific questions?" (1770) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1770#Comment_1770 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/156/request-ignoring-specific-questions/?Focus=1770#Comment_1770 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:50:15 -0800 Qiaochu Yuan