Timeline for Do we have a beginner question tag?
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| Jan 5, 2018 at 9:27 | comment | added | Andrew T. | I can see a possibility of high-rep users creating a new account just to participate in this restricted puzzle... why discriminating in the first place? (Having multiple accounts without interacting each other is permitted on SE) | |
| Nov 16, 2017 at 21:32 | comment | added | Beastly Gerbil | @GentlePurpleRain that is true, however I imagine that unless a user with a reasonable amount or rep already created the puzzle - which I doubt many will - the tag I believe will be used by new users as an excuse to post a low quality puzzle to gain quick rep. This might not happen of course but that’s how I imagine this would end up | |
| Nov 16, 2017 at 20:18 | comment | added | GentlePurpleRain Mod | @BeastlyGerbil "Easy" $\neq$ "low-quality". You can have an extremely well-thought-out and well-presented puzzle that is nonetheless easy to solve. Maybe such puzzles would appeal to certain demographics (e.g. children (or teachers of children)). | |
| Nov 16, 2017 at 19:49 | comment | added | Beastly Gerbil | I have a feeling a tag like this would lead to a lot of low quality puzzles | |
| Nov 15, 2017 at 19:44 | comment | added | Barker | What about something like "single layered" or "straight-forward", sort of an opposite of "enigmatic"? That would still be describing content, but it would also indicate that the puzzle isn't going to require a bunch of steps or layers of abstraction to solve it, meaning it will likely be better for new users. | |
| Nov 15, 2017 at 17:47 | comment | added | Gareth McCaughan Mod | Possibly relevant: puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1437/…, puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4574/…, puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4714/…. | |
| Nov 15, 2017 at 17:46 | comment | added | Gareth McCaughan Mod | A tag like "easy" would arguably be describing the content rather than the context of the question and hence not be a meta-tag as such. I suspect it still wouldn't be very well received, though, not least because what counts as easy is very subjective. | |
| Nov 15, 2017 at 17:06 | comment | added | Barker | Makes sense, a tag though would make it easy for new users to find a bunch of questions they might be able to answer. | |
| Nov 15, 2017 at 16:13 | history | answered | GentlePurpleRainMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |