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How should I go about requesting a topic move or retag?
Occasionally, especially for newer users, I'll see a post in a section of the site where it doesn't belong, sometimes without (proper) tags. What's the best way to bring this to the attention of folks who can fix it? Leaving comments is messy and distracts from the discussion, but right now it's the only method I know of to bring up the issue.
That's precisely what the 'offtopic' comment label is for. It lowers any comments labeled as such in the sort so they don't distract from any on-topic conversation going on elsewhere the comments. So my suggestion would be to go ahead and make a comment in the topic itself, but just mention it's meta/offtopic and should be labeled as such.
But if you don't want to do that, another option is to join the Unofficial Tildes Chat Discord. There is a #curatorium channel in there that a lot of us with the ability to edit tags, move topics, etc. frequent.
Good news there. The Feature request: label own comments as offtopic (maybe also joke and/or noise) is in progress, with a related merge request that accomplishes just that... and also adds the much talked about "Aside/whisper" comment type as well. ;)
p.s.
I don't think offtopic effects the bump mechanism... only noise does AFAIK. But I could be wrong there.I was incorrect... see below.No, you were right. Comments in Offtopic threads don't bump under the default Activity sort.
Thanks for the clarification. I was just going through topic_interesting_activity_updater.py and spotted:
So was going to let @vivaria know they were actually correct.
I'll give you the ability to move and tag others' topics—it's not something I'm trying to be particularly restrictive with, and it's good to have more people that can do it when they notice things aren't correct.
Otherwise, just commenting about it is fine, and people can mark it as Offtopic/Noise as needed to keep it out of the way of the other discussion.
Excellent, thank you! Thank you both for giving me the ability to help out and for trusting me to actually do so.