Timeline for Should we have a tag for sceptical questions?
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| Mar 28, 2017 at 10:13 | history | edited | ChrisWMod |
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| Sep 16, 2015 at 15:25 | vote | accept | Andriy VolkovMod | ||
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| Sep 12, 2015 at 22:07 | answer | added | Krishnaraj Rao | timeline score: -1 | |
| Sep 12, 2015 at 21:31 | comment | added | Crab Bucket Mod | @KrishnarajRao I be honest a fundamentalist tag would be enormously controversial. But I would encourage you to post the critical reasoning tag suggestion as an answer and it would allow people to vote on it if they think it's a good idea. You could also post the fundamentalist tag idea if you wanted but I think you would get a very negative reaction for that. I'll leave that one up to you | |
| Sep 12, 2015 at 21:24 | comment | added | Krishnaraj Rao | @CrabBucket - The reason I suggest "Critical Reasoning" is that Skeptic is a label that some people attach to others. If you have a Skeptic tag, then maybe you should consider having a tag for a diametrically opposed quality, such as "Fundamentalist" or maybe even "Superstitious"? | |
| Sep 12, 2015 at 21:19 | comment | added | Crab Bucket Mod | @KrishnarajRao I personally think skeptic is good because it links into the Skeptics SE site that our users may be familiar with | |
| Sep 12, 2015 at 21:14 | answer | added | Crab BucketMod | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 12, 2015 at 21:12 | comment | added | Krishnaraj Rao | @ChrisW - May I also suggest the tag "Critical Reasoning" as an alternative to "Skeptical"? | |
| Sep 12, 2015 at 21:11 | comment | added | Krishnaraj Rao | @ChrisW - May I suggest opening up some questions that have been closed because of their eyebrow-raising content, tagging them as skeptical, and answering them as case studies? | |
| Sep 10, 2015 at 19:10 | comment | added | user382 | I like the idea | |
| Sep 10, 2015 at 12:52 | comment | added | ChrisW Mod | Thanks. It seems it could be a popular proposal but maybe let's measure it twice before cutting once. | |
| Sep 10, 2015 at 11:57 | comment | added | Andriy Volkov Mod | @ChrisW, I will try to find examples, need focused time for that, not between other things. | |
| Sep 10, 2015 at 11:00 | comment | added | Crab Bucket Mod | +1 for this from em. I know that meta tags controversial but we are seeing questions that have a skeptical edge to them and I think been able to raise a question in that spirit would be helpful | |
| Sep 10, 2015 at 10:45 | comment | added | ChrisW Mod | I find it difficult to understand where you'd draw the line for a 'skeptics' tag. For example if someone asked, "what's the purpose of chanting" or "what's the benefit of dana" then would that be "doubting the truth"? Apart from 'personal practice' and 'reference request', what types of question wouldn't be "having a questioning attitude", or would they all be? | |
| Sep 10, 2015 at 10:42 | answer | added | ChrisWMod | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 9, 2015 at 23:22 | comment | added | ChrisW Mod | Assuming you'd like to vote in favour of this policy, would you post an answer with a list of several existing questions, to which you'd want to apply this tag? Try to list some questions which would definitely (in your opinion) benefit from and/or deserve this tag, and maybe some edge cases (questions which barely deserve it, and some questions which for some reason don't deserve it). Part of the reason for doing that (identifying examples) is that if the policy were implemented then that list of examples could be used for explaining how and when to use (and when not to use) that new tag. | |
| Sep 9, 2015 at 22:28 | history | asked | Andriy VolkovMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |