If people find that “bugging the mods” seems like a bad way to get things done (e.g. because we aren’t responsive enough), I think a better initial solution is “more mods” or “more time from current mods” rather than trying to build new technical systems.
This won’t always be the case. Sometimes, a new system will save a lot of time and have a big ROI. But the “more mod time” response has a few advantages:
New tech is slow, while adding mod time can be done instantly.
It’s easier and cheaper to add mod time than programmer time on the Forum.
Mods are generally going to be more flexible than technical systems.
Finally, if we get annoyed by repetitive tasks, we can poke the programmers about new systems and provide strong evidence that a task is not a good thing for mods to spend time on.
I expect duplicate tags to be a pretty infrequent problem once the Wiki merger is done, so this feels more mod-shaped than tech-shaped.
On the “way for non-mods to delete tags”:
If people find that “bugging the mods” seems like a bad way to get things done (e.g. because we aren’t responsive enough), I think a better initial solution is “more mods” or “more time from current mods” rather than trying to build new technical systems.
This won’t always be the case. Sometimes, a new system will save a lot of time and have a big ROI. But the “more mod time” response has a few advantages:
New tech is slow, while adding mod time can be done instantly.
It’s easier and cheaper to add mod time than programmer time on the Forum.
Mods are generally going to be more flexible than technical systems.
Finally, if we get annoyed by repetitive tasks, we can poke the programmers about new systems and provide strong evidence that a task is not a good thing for mods to spend time on.
I expect duplicate tags to be a pretty infrequent problem once the Wiki merger is done, so this feels more mod-shaped than tech-shaped.