Timeline for To spoiler or not to spoiler, June 2014 edition
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| Dec 20, 2021 at 22:01 | comment | added | David Siegel | This would require regular manual intervention and is not sustainable IMO. Therefor it is the worst of both worlds; it makes (some) titles unclear and unsearchable, while not avoiding HNQ spoilers. | |
| Jun 21, 2014 at 8:08 | comment | added | user56 | Hot network questions have existed for several years. What changed recently is that they used to be accessed through a menu (a tab in the multicollider accessed by the top left “Stack Exchange” button, alongside the inbox and the site list). When the top bar was redesigned, the inbox got its own button and the HNQ moved to the right tab. | |
| Jun 15, 2014 at 20:37 | comment | added | user1027 | FWIW, mods have no special tools or knowledge of if/when questions go to the Hot Network Questions list. We have no ability to be particularly helpful there. | |
| Jun 15, 2014 at 17:05 | comment | added | Brian Warshaw | Yeah, that makes sense. Im just wary of manual intervention being necessary to remove something after it hits the list, because that means you end up with a period of time (however small) where the spoiler is still visible from network sites. Your solution is still better than leaving it untouched indefinitely, but we still run the risk that somebody gets unwanted spoilers while visiting a site of unrelated content. And while that doesn't reflect badly on this site, necessarily, it could make folks grow angry with the network as a whole or with the particular site where the spoil happens. | |
| Jun 15, 2014 at 16:57 | comment | added | alexwlchan | @BrianWarshaw: I don’t like the idea of forcing it all through the mods, because putting it all on them is unsustainable. A new category in the 10k mod tools is the best I can think of, but there may be better ways to do it. | |
| Jun 15, 2014 at 16:48 | comment | added | Brian Warshaw | I think your idea is good, but I'm having trouble thinking of a way to automate it, and if it isn't automated, we're destined to fail. Maybe there's a way to require questions from this site be placed in a review queue prior to being displayed in HNQ? Maybe during that review process a mod ensures that the title at a minimum is spoiler free and that the question itself is uneditable while in HNQ? | |
| Jun 15, 2014 at 7:24 | history | answered | alexwlchan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |