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Welcome to the staging ground for new communities! Each proposal has a description in the "Descriptions" category and a body of questions and answers in "Incubator Q&A". You can ask questions (and get answers, we hope!) right away, and start new proposals.

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Make proposed community tags mandatory

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Every question in the Incubator Q&A category should have 1 or more tags for a proposed community, so that it is clear which community or communities the question is intended for.

Currently it is possible to add a question without adding a proposed community tag. Could the presence of such a tag be made mandatory, in the same way as the mandatory tags on Codidact's Meta categories must have at least 1 applied?

The Codidact Proposals Meta category also does not have any mandatory tags, unlike other Codidact communities' Meta catagories. Should this also be changed?

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Not saying this is a bad idea, but it will put a load on the admin team because adding a tag to the r... (7 comments)
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I agree - the obvious candidate for these mandatory "community" tags are those listed for each community below "Descriptions".

The "community" tags should be optional on meta, since posts here might also be about this site in itself (like for example this very question).

Maybe we can also make these tags stand out by giving them a unique color? Similar to how the "feature-request" is colored dark blue in this meta post.

I also agree that this meta should enforce the usual mandatory tags "feature-request", "support", "discussion", "bug". Maybe there is a reason why they aren't mandatory?

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Proposed community tags have a dark outline (3 comments)
Proposed community tags have a dark outline
trichoplax‭ wrote about 1 year ago

The tags for proposed communities are already visually distinguished by having a dark outline, but if this wasn't obvious then maybe the distinction needs to be clearer, perhaps with a different interior colour as you suggest.

Lundin‭ wrote about 1 year ago

trichoplax‭ Actually I just noticed as much too, while browsing the site after posting it. But the difference is minimal, to the point where I didn't even notice it. It needs to stand out much more, an entirely different colour.

trichoplax‭ wrote about 1 year ago

I agree. The difference needs to be immediately obvious to everyone.

The only problem I see is that if one community wants a tag that happens to be the name of another community, then it would need to be displayed differently when it is the tag for a community called "shopping" than when it is a standard tag called "shopping" for a community called "bicycles". I don't know how to support this with the current interface. We could possibly say community tags have to be ALL UPPERCASE so they are distinct not only to the user but also to the system when migrating later.

That seems awkward so hopefully someone can think of something better.