Timeline for Help us identify new roles for community members
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| Nov 30, 2022 at 12:27 | comment | added | Jyrki_Shog9Supporter | With sufficiently large egos clashing, problems are foreseeable, and remedies should be discussed in advance. I think the dupehammer is the highest privilege we can safely award anyone, and even that should be monitored. | |
| Nov 30, 2022 at 12:25 | comment | added | Jyrki_Shog9Supporter | A problem with this is that Guru powers can be abused (I would say will be). Already with Gold Badge dupehammerers we occasionally see them favoring their own old answers, granting those "a canonical answer" -status. This is not necessarily excessive self-promotion because an eager dupe hunter is very pressed for time, so it is natural to use threads you have answered yourself as dupe targets. Simply because those are the easiest to find. But there is potential for abuse. I have also seen two dupehammerers getting into close/reopen wars and such. | |
| Nov 29, 2022 at 16:41 | comment | added | ChrisW | I don't get why you'd want to suppress voting -- because that may be unpopular and I don't see why it's desirable. Also is there any important difference between "recommended (by the authority)" and "authoritative"? | |
| Nov 29, 2022 at 16:35 | comment | added | ChrisW | @mdewey You're telling me. Some people on the Buddhist site would find it controversial, I am pretty sure. One of the FAQed topics in the meta there ends with, "In general, unless you actually are the questioner's teacher, don't assume a teacher's mantle." | |
| Nov 29, 2022 at 16:15 | comment | added | mdewey | @ChrisW perhaps these days using a word from various religions en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru might mislead people on some sites. | |
| Nov 29, 2022 at 12:35 | comment | added | ChrisW | @This_is_NOT_a_forum It's jargon (which may be understood on SO but not other sites). | |
| Nov 29, 2022 at 11:32 | comment | added | Charchit Agarwal | Marking the posts as "authoritative", having "delegates" and calling them "guru" or experts seems very patronizing. Marking posts as obsolete might seem to have merit, but putting a comment under the post also does a fair job of getting the point across most times. I'd much rather take the current existing system of reputation to help determine trust in the author than having people with the tag "guru" under their name. | |
| Nov 29, 2022 at 9:43 | comment | added | PM 2Ring | I don't like this idea. FWIW, in the Python tag on SO, some of the Python core devs are (or have been) active members. Of course, the Python community recognise them by name, and appreciate their expert input. But they don't need to be given an extra special status boost. And they aren't infallible demi-gods: they occasionally make blunders, and get down-votes. | |
| Nov 29, 2022 at 9:05 | comment | added | This_is_NOT_a_forum | Is the name itself, "guru", a problematic name or not (not a rhetorical question)? | |
| Nov 29, 2022 at 7:38 | history | edited | Rubén | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
change role name from Expert to Guru
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| Nov 29, 2022 at 6:37 | comment | added | ChrisW | Maybe "Author" would be a better title than "Expert" -- on SO it's the author of whichever tool -- or perhaps "authoritative". | |
| Nov 29, 2022 at 4:34 | comment | added | starball | Would this be similar to "recognized members", which is a thing for collectives, but just that it isn't limited to collectives? | |
| Nov 29, 2022 at 4:33 | comment | added | starball | I'd be on board with some kind of indicator for "being the recognized creator of a topic". But as someone without the kind of academic background you're referring to, the rest of the (highly-academic-background-favouring) qualifications feels a little strangely specific, especially if put beside the "anyone can ask and answer" statement we put on the site banners. | |
| Nov 29, 2022 at 4:27 | comment | added | starball | I feel like the word "expert" is too general here / confusing when we use the term "subject matter expert" to refer to anyone who knows a topic well without having those qualities you list here. | |
| Nov 29, 2022 at 3:02 | history | answered | Rubén | CC BY-SA 4.0 |