@anonymous2 you are welcome! ;-)

@Rathony in SOCVR we bumped over 1500 questions when burninating go-daddy. On Stack Overflow bumping isn't noticed as much as on smaller sites though. Also see this MSO post on the topic, written by a famous author. 74 question is what we would call a one sitting burn, meaning you can burninate that in one day by a single person.

@rene Thanks for the link. Burninating a tag with that many questions is somewhat new on ELU. The crucial issue was one user started to edit those questions without much consensus from the community. I know 74 is not difficult to edit, but I was wondering whether it's worth it.

Yeah, it is always a bit shady when to ask on meta or not. If I see a request for 10 or 20 questions I mostly go meh, just do it, on higher counts I think an meta post is warranted but if the user that is re-tagging is high rep and has a well known track record I don't see much of an issue. Without consensus you better refrain from doing a burn, yes.

I sometimes suggest to consult in chat

@rene That's right. The strange thing is the user started to edit the tags right after he joined the site. Usually, almost all users including myself start to edit typos and format, but strangely enough, he started to edit just tags and continuously edited tags. I am not saying it's anything wrong, but unusual. And 4K doesn't seem to prove track record, either.

Tagging seems to be the easiest to do, so that might explain it. I have another answer about re-tagging/burn guidance here.

@rene That's great! Thanks. But out of curiosity, how high is high rep enough to retag?

@rene It depends. Most of the time, a newbie doesn't know how the tag works, they always make a mistake in editing tags. That's usual. But if a newbie starts to edit a tag correctly, that's something very unusual and might lead to suspicion that the user is a sockpuppet.

@Rathony I wouldn't look at rep alone but also at rep in the related tags. Don't expect me to retag anything on Haskell or C++ but I think I'm qualified to retag anything related to .Net technology. A 100K rep user can be shitty re-tegger

@Rathony tag edits for low rep still goes through the review queue and there it has a pre-baked reject reason. Above 2K I would ping or chat with the user if I have doubts

s/tegger/tagger/

@rene But the tags on language site are not very clear-cut and most of the time tag only edits are approved... I agree it should depend on their rep in the related tag. The thing is when you have 4K rep, it won't be enough to claim that you are an expert in any tag.

Hhmm, OK. In that case it is better to reach meta consensus on when to start re-tag batch. I don't have any feel of ELU (except that I personally find it a difficult site, but that is me) but maybe some of the MSO posts on the topic might help in the ELU discussion.

@rene Yes, ELU is a difficult site. Thanks for your input!!

yw

looks like he was in hurry...

that is the ELU way?

googling ELU

still no clue

yahooing ELU

asking flowers what is ELU

@berserk who? The Flash?

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>>read 5431576

@ShadowWizard this message to

@berserk English.SE.

Interesting bug... @Pro when FOX try to read a message that has been moved, it read the "moved this message to..." part instead of last actual message revision, see here

As if it's reading the "Message history" items and taking the last, instead of the "Current version" text. Is the read using screen scraping?

@ShadowWizard That's because the last revision of the "Message history" is the "moved ... " part.

@ProgramFOX true, but the actual, current, message is what matters as that's what everyone see... no?

@ShadowWizard Well... the problem is that the "Current version" contains HTML, whereas the "Message history" shows the original Markdown, which is usually what you want.

ChatExchange does provide a way to get the HTML, but the bot always takes the Markdown.

oh well, guess it's too minor to bother anyway. And still curious to know what @ber had in mind when moving them...

@M.A.R. oh ok thanks chemicalz...

this?

@ShadowWizard heh.. evil laugh..

@berserk nope... this :D

sssshhhh

btw these are same

evil laugh

evil butt kicking

evil pissing

waffles

waffles

@rene @zaq found a way, ending it with two slashes