Answer 1

Aw, you beat me to making this, lol.

To add, please make sure the formatting is also correct. At least one space after the closing bracket is needed. Make sure it's in all caps. If it's a two-worded header, like off-topic, make sure there is a hyphen connecting the two words, instead of using a space or listing it as one word.

[BUG] - Email [e-mail].
[DUPLICATE] - Please avoid these.
[FEEDBACK] - Please use feedback option.
[OFF-TOPIC] - Seen as "misc." on the Q&A.
[SUGGESTION] - To share an update idea.
[SPAM] - Just don't.
[ASSIGNMENT] - For code-assignments.

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<[ ! ]> Regarding the [ASSIGNMENT] header & assignments on the Q&A, the moderators kindly ask that you also include "assignment" within the tags. Also, please submit your challenges to the lesson-factory before posting them to the Q&A. It would be appreciated if users were patient with the lesson-factory's approval-times and waited rather than posting the assignment to the forum, but not everyone is that patient and iOS apparently doesn't have access to the lesson-factory. Nevertheless, thanks for your understanding and time reading this request!

Answer 2

So... would it be appropriate to tag this post as [OFF-TOPIC]? 😂

Answer 3

Good info, thanks @Ace 😊👍and I wouldn't say this is an off-topic thread, but hmm, there could be a [SOLOLEARN] tag :) we could use it for announcing community stuff like this or new app updates :)

Answer 4

Actually this post is on topic because it's purpose is to improve SoloLearn and, as long as it isn't a duplicate, that is valid a reason to post in Q&A.

Answer 5

@David yes I could tell you were kidding, it made me laugh 😄

@Ace great :) I think SoloLearn with the help of mods, can build pillars of content being posted in the Q&A, based on their experience and monitoring, they can tell what kind of questions are the most popular and create tags for each. The current form for posting questions includes Question, Description and Relevant Tags, so they could add a "Type of Question" required* field and offer the options mentioned by @CipherFox, like: OFF-TOPIC, SUGGESTION, BUG, etc, and others I can think of like PROGRAMMING, SOLOLEARN, etc. to make users label them from the start and help mods focus on duplicates to better and faster organize the content 😊

Answer 6

Some are SPAM for me. Since they only have the word Hacker somewhere and no other description. And there are also those who ask for help on how to steal a Facebook / Twitter / WhatsApp / whatever account (should these types of threads be notified to mods? I mean, those who talk about stealing an account)

Answer 7

Technically speaking, the hacker related questions would be [DUPLICATE] because it is related to programming and there are so many people asking about it in the same general way:

"How can I learn to be an ethical hacker?"

... or some variation of this question.

Answer 8

This is a gentle warning to the ones who have been spamming this thread. Most of the spam has been removed. Please avoid posting any more. Let it be on record that this warning has been placed. Remain on-topic if you plan on posting any more answers.

Thanks.

Answer 9

I was actually kidding about this being tagged as [OFF-TOPIC] because it didn't fit the definition of being about programming.

Essentially, these tags would not apply to informational messages about the community posted by official moderators or SoloLearn.

Answer 10

can there be a tag -> [CELEBRATION]
😅

Answer 11

[ ! ] ATTENTION EVERYONE [ ! ]

A new header has been introduced. Rather than regarding user-created challenge/assignment threads as off-topic, we're instead implementing the new [ASSIGNMENT] header in its place.

Please review the edited answer (marked as best) for specific details. Thanks!

Answer 12

Where is the [H4CK3R] tag? 😏

(really, yesterday I saw at least 6 post that deserved it lol)

Answer 13

I know, I was just kidding. Normally that type of post does not have much use. And they are duplicates or spam.

The definition of OFF-TOPIC is one of the most complicated things here. I remember misusing the label at least once, until @Ace informed me of it.

Answer 14

@Aamir Malik @Aishwaryaravi Aishwaryarwvi @yashwanth Manoj @Ritul Raut
This post was meant clear the community's doubt about which questions were and would be marked [OFF-TOPIC] by the mod team. Please delete your answers as they are not relevant to the main topic.

@Anthony Kgomongoe
I think you confused mods with devs. Mods aren't devs. You can send your idea as a suggestion on [e-mail]

Answer 15

Having tags definitely a good way of identifying the contents of the post allow someone to read based on their interest.

l am also suggesting add tags when replying to post especially when the post is [IRRELEVANT] in order to avoid further discussion on that post.

Answer 16

@Mickel... Yes... Please do report posts involving such topics involving illegal activities.

Answer 17

Hey @GENIUS... Please remove these from this post.

Posting irrelevant links to other people's questions is considered spam.

Answer 18

There is a nice function for the users to report a post or account. If the users also have a function to say that one post is one of the listed categories, maybe the moderators only have to filter for the new incoming reports and have to accept or decline that reported message... 🤔
That only an idea to handle that big incoming data volume, that you can also ignore/decline. 😉

Answer 19

@Sean-Michael Botelho

As in there only being a certain amount permitted? I believe there should be a limit of a sort, yes.

We're expecting that the future Q/A updates will solve this issue by providing a more organized forum, search features, and post creation options/guides (from what I've been hearing through the grapevine). I'm not sure of how accurate this is, though.

To combat what you've mentioned as well as similar issues (until the update is released), the mods have been developing a new strategy to better organize how we respond to duplicate posts. I'm fairly confident that our new approach will benefit the community, as well as possibly aid SoloLearn's future Q/A updates. I won't say too much, considering that it's "still in the works" and also has to be approved by the SL developers before it's implemented. Stay tuned. ^^

Answer 20

Noeline Ako

Make sure the order of answers is set to "Votes". After doing that, my answer should be at the top (marked as best answer).