I want to extend the concept of badge-based privileges to the silver level, and the best opportunity to do that is to once again look at tag badges.

 

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So, silver-badge holders - what would make your time on the site more productive than it currently is if you had access to it? There are some things I'd like to avoid:

 

• 'Extra weights' in current privileges. E.g. having your vote count as two instead of one. This is way too difficult to implement, and way too complicated to explain to someone new.

 
• Short-circuiting of community oversight. E.g. being able to instantly approve tag synonyms where you have a silver badge in one of the tags. Mistakes here could be costly, and not surface for quite a while. Some things simply need a few keys turned in order to happen.

The Silver Tag Badge could appear next to the buttons in the Review Queue, it wouldn't do anything except Reviewers could easily click on it and determine if they feel knowledgeable about the subject (whether they possess such a badge or not).

This would hint the Reviewer that a silver tag badged user was one of the persons whom contributed to the question or answer entering the queue. It would allow the Badge to have more weight but not remove humans from the decision making process.

This wouldn't be "way too complicated" either, click it for more information or ignore it. If it was deemed necessary a snackbar (formally called toast) message could explain the changes.

Example:

I've had a diamond next to my name since early 2011. While I'm well aware of what privileges get unlocked at what level, it's nearly impossible for me to just use the site as someone that has a few of these. While I don't see much opportunity to extend this to the bronze level, I really think we could do something at the silver level, I just wish I could put my finger on it.

As shown above, if Mjölnir owners could turn the hammer off they could cast non-hammer-votes, and just use the site as a lower reputation user (to solicit more opinions).

The gold, silver, and bronze badges could be displayed in the Moderator Tools next to each flagged post, that would assist people without interdisciplinary expertise to decide if they should visit the post and cast a deciding vote. They would be clickable for more information and serve to indicate the confidence of the flag. There are no "new users" involved and snackbars could be handed out as explained above.

Example:

I believe that proposal addresses all your concerns.

I want to extend the concept of badge-based privileges to the silver level, and the best opportunity to do that is to once again look at tag badges.

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So, silver-badge holders - what would make your time on the site more productive than it currently is if you had access to it? There are some things I'd like to avoid:

• 'Extra weights' in current privileges. E.g. having your vote count as two instead of one. This is way too difficult to implement, and way too complicated to explain to someone new.

• Short-circuiting of community oversight. E.g. being able to instantly approve tag synonyms where you have a silver badge in one of the tags. Mistakes here could be costly, and not surface for quite a while. Some things simply need a few keys turned in order to happen.

The Silver Tag Badge could appear next to the buttons in the Review Queue, it wouldn't do anything except Reviewers could easily click on it and determine if they feel knowledgeable about the subject (whether they possess such a badge or not).

This would hint the Reviewer that a silver tag badged user was one of the persons whom contributed to the question or answer entering the queue. It would allow the Badge to have more weight but not remove humans from the decision making process.

This wouldn't be "way too complicated" either, click it for more information or ignore it. If it was deemed necessary a snackbar (formally called toast) message could explain the changes.

Example:

I've had a diamond next to my name since early 2011. While I'm well aware of what privileges get unlocked at what level, it's nearly impossible for me to just use the site as someone that has a few of these. While I don't see much opportunity to extend this to the bronze level, I really think we could do something at the silver level, I just wish I could put my finger on it.

As shown above, if Mjölnir owners could turn the hammer off they could cast non-hammer-votes, and just use the site as a lower reputation user (to solicit more opinions).

The gold, silver, and bronze badges could be displayed in the Moderator Tools next to each flagged post, that would assist people without interdisciplinary expertise to decide if they should visit the post and cast a deciding vote. They would be clickable for more information and serve to indicate the confidence of the flag. There are no "new users" involved and snackbars could be handed out as explained above.

Example:

I believe that proposal addresses all your concerns.