## Tag curator This draws from: - https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/260166/close-vote-superpowers-for-other-badges-in-low-volume-tags - https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/240700/empowering-tag-badge-holders-part-ii-lets-look-at-silver - https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/256537/extending-the-gold-badge-rights-to-further-close-vote-reasons - https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/253324/give-high-rep-users-extra-weight-on-close-votes ### What it is This role identifies users with some degree of domain expertise, usually represented by tag badges, *and* some degree of platform expertise. In my view, the main difference between gold badge holders and tag curators is that users with domain expertise who are also interested in tag curation will edit, vote-to-close, dupe-hammer and/or answer **old questions**. Users with gold tag badges who are *not* interested in curation, typically will only answer, and possibly vote-to-close/dupe-hammer only newest questions. For them, older content is simply not interesting. Curators will also *curate* existing older content; which, I believe, is the very meaning of the word "curate". ### How to identify such users Tag badges (possibly just gold, but also silver) + number of actions (edits, close votes, delete votes) on older content with the relevant tag where they didn't participate in tag editing. Or, considering "Archeologist" badge on the specific tag. I don't have a specific threshold in mind, probably the same for "Necromancer" badges, just to avoid introducing more foreign criteria. The count of such actions should *exclude* questions that have been asked or answered by that same user. Maintaining your own content in good shape doesn't imply an interest in broader tag curation. ### Privileges of tag curators As it was already suggested elsewhere, extended vote powers. - Gold badge holders with tag curator status may have binding close and reopen votes *at least* for "Needs details or clarity", "Needs more focus", "Needs debugging details", "Not reproducible or caused by a typo" close reasons, along with "Duplicate". - Silver badge holders with tag curator status may have their close and reopen votes weighted 2 instead of one. - Bronze badge holders with tag curator status may be granted access to close/reopen vote privilege below 3.000 reputation — and possibly edit privileges below 2.000 reputation —, in that tag. ### Use case This stems from a practical issue. Tag curators who scavenge for old content, especially when looking for dupe targets, may *very easily* come across off-topic content that didn't get moderated on time. If a several-years-old off-topic question has also received answers, casting a close vote more often than not results in... nothing. The close vote will just age away in the close queue. This is even more true for low-traffic tags, where the chances that new content gets timely moderation are lower, and off-topic material just piles up forever. When such off-topic unclosed questions receive new activity, they may get eligible for concerted action in certain chat rooms, but this simply doesn't scale.