Timeline for Is the tag [reinventing-the-wheel] really helpful?
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| Feb 8, 2014 at 18:38 | comment | added | nhgrif | Moderators can do their best to ensure it's used as intended. On SO, I remove the [xcode] tag from posts about 10 times per day. My question would be whether or not this tag is applicable when rolfl's point 1 applies but point 2 does not. | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 23:33 | comment | added | Simon Forsberg | I think the tag can be helpful, but I think that the most important aspect of the helpfulness of it is: Do people use it as intended? | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 14:50 | comment | added | Gareth Rees | @Bobby: My answer that I linked to above explains why Code Review is different from Stack Overflow in this respect. | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 14:41 | comment | added | Bobby | @GarethRees: Here's an old Meta.SO topic about it. I'm not saying it applies to here, but it's a fine discussion to read. | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 14:11 | comment | added | Gareth Rees | @Bobby: Re the beginner tag, it's very useful to have some idea of the OP's level of expertise, otherwise you run the risk of pitching the answer at the wrong level. See this question and its answers. (I do think that it's probably better for the OP to describe their expertise in the question, but if the beginner tag is all we get, that's a lot better than nothing.) | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 13:37 | comment | added | Bobby | Point 5, given that Stack Exchange always was supposed to be a knowledge base, shouldn't we always point out possibilities to do something different? And if it is only to make the question "more complete" when viewed from the outside? Point 6 should also be in the question itself, in my opinion. I don't get Point 7, but Point 8 is what I tried to express with the different view points. A question that only has one answer pointing towards a library is a bad thing here, code needs to be reviewed, even if it is thrown out at the end. | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 13:34 | comment | added | Bobby | I think your points 1 and 2 should, at least, also be in the question itself. The points 3 and 4 should not matter at all to us, we should hold code to the high standards we hold our own code against. It doesn't matter if the code is only an exercise, if it's bad we should point that out. | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 13:31 | comment | added | Bobby | For what's worth, I also do not consider the tag [beginner] good, so maybe we have to disagree on that. | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 13:19 | history | answered | rolfl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |