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Filtering the sandbox for ease of feedback

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I see the Sandbox as a vital part of challenge design. When I visit the Sandbox I'd like to be able to show only proposals that are not finalized, so I can focus feedback where it is needed.

In the absence of dedicated functionality, I can search for sandbox posts without the "finalized" tag.

This would probably be enough for me, except there are proposals with "[FINALIZED]" edited into the title instead of having the "finalized" tag, and there are proposals that have been posted as challenges but have not yet been tagged as "finalized" in the Sandbox. There are also some which have "[CANCELLED]" edited into the title.

If we tag all the finalized posts there is still the problem that the search results can only be sorted by posted date, not activity, so posts with recent edits following feedback do not go to the top of the search results, like they do in the Sandbox posts list.

Some of the problem can be fixed simply by adding tags to posts, but I'd like to have a discussion before making any changes. What are your thoughts, particularly on the following points?

  • Should the "finalized" tag be the accepted way to indicate that a proposal has been posted to the Challenges section?
  • Would it be helpful to edit the existing introduction text at the top of the Sandbox post list, to include the link to the search for sandbox posts without the "finalized" tag?
  • Could we add a "cancelled" tag so the search can exclude those too?
  • Are we content to use a link to search results indefinitely, or would this just be a short term measure with the hope of having dedicated functionality at some point?
  • Do you have a preferred solution / idea for a solution?
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I'm leaving this answer here for any votes and discussion, but I no longer hold this opinion. I've posted a longer answer to explain why I've changed my mind


After hearing about the filter developments currently being worked on, mentioned in Monica's comment, my personal opinion is that tags for "finalized" and "cancelled" are the best solution to use now, so that we are ready when the ability to filter post lists by tags becomes available.

I'd like to hear whether people agree with this, and whether there is any objection to people starting to gradually add these tags to the backlog of finalized and cancelled posts that has built up.

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Note that there's [another meta post](https://codegolf.codidact.com/posts/283917) relevant in this co... (3 comments)
Note that there's [another meta post](https://codegolf.codidact.com/posts/283917) relevant in this co...
celtschk‭ wrote about 2 years ago

Note that there's another meta post relevant in this context.

trichoplax‭ wrote about 2 years ago · edited about 2 years ago

That meta post does provide a good motivation for avoiding both "finalized" and "cancelled" tags. I'm less comfortable with "[FINALIZED]" or "[CANCELLED]" in the title - that requires searching each time I want to see posts that need feedback, rather than just setting a permanent filter on sandbox posts. Having a link to that search available as part of the intro text at the top of the sandbox posts lists would make this less work. At present that seems like the best compromise.

I'm just wary of anything that makes people less likely to put time into giving sandbox feedback.

The other advantage of tags is they are not vulnerable to typos like manually editing "[FINALIZED]" into the title is. Both words also have two different spellings depending on country - "finalized" or "finalised", and "canceled" or "cancelled" - so multiple spellings is even more likely. We could probably get around this using a longer search term that excludes both spellings plus a list of common misspellings.

Moshi‭ wrote about 2 years ago

Note: Tag synonyms are also Coming Soon(TM) so multiple spellings will also be less of an issue then :)