@SonictheCuriouserHedgehog , @Rob you've both posted a link to a room that I created within the hour, which has only 2 posts in the room (both by me!). I was wondering if anyone has come across a chat room about Git int he past, perhaps on other network sites such as SuperUser. I was quite surprised that there was no rooms on the topic when I searched for it, so I made that one that you're linking there.
@user1271772 That's not a direct link to the room you created, it's a link to the search engine for Stack Overflow chat (where you can search for whichever rooms you wish); it's no surprise that if you create rooms that turn up in a search that they show up. In addition a link was offered to Software Engineering's meta Q&A on GIT; which (at the bottom) also suggests that you can use that site's chat room to ask about it.
Indeed there's a lot of rooms to look through, and different search terms to try.
> “Nucleotides are passing through this tiny hole, and we’re measuring the current four thousand times a second.” The software is decoding the sequence in real time so that it can be matched to different genetic markers. So, for example, you could identify if it’s likely to be a pathogenic bacteria or a gene associated with cancer. More importantly, you can ignore fragments that aren’t of use at the moment.
@Tinkeringbell to be fair, it isn't a dongle. It's a box large enough to take test tubes that sits on your desk. portable, yes, and connects over USB, but I wouldn't call it a dongle
Oh dang. The smallest model from Oxford Nanopore is actually only slightly larger than a dongle! You can load the DNA directly on to it, so no need for test tubes. I stand corrected!
@Ollie It seems... to overly complicate something that's already frustrating to new users... I see questions many days from low-rep people who really need a tag created and can't. Further reducing the number of people who can create tags seems like a terrible way to keep the site curated.
I mean... the rep required to create tags is already elevated on SO.
But what if the question is about something and there's only one proper tag for it... and that tag doesn't exist - would we allow posting that question with a tag in some sort of review status? What happens to tags that get rejected?
How do we connect the creation of the tag with the posts that need it? Would reviewers also have to review the questions that should have the tag and retag them if the tag is being rejected?
@Catija Ask the question with a remotely-related existing tag, as the answer to this says
@rene Yep, this is a huge problem on SU. It has an explicit policy against tags that are simply names of companies and not actual products, but usually an un-knowing user (re)creates a tag with a company name, and it gets used by others, resulting in larger backlogs for us to clean up.
@SonictheCuriouserHedgehog When I was elected as a mod on Super User I was told my first job was to organise a tag cleanup weekend. I don't thing we've had one since:) Apparently that is the traditional first task for a new mod :)
I agree with the main idea but I have a couple of notes.
As miken32 said in his answer, creating a separate review queue for this purpose is unlikely to be helpful.
One of the biggest problems with newly-created tags, in my opinion, is that they rarely have any description (tag wiki) or usage g...
The proposal is too complicated and has too many flaws (due to the differences even for existing per-topic tag policy), but I don't have enough time to compile and write the answer...