Your points here ignore the simple fact that not all questions about EOL releases are automatically off-topic so any system that attempts to look at tags needs to be intelligent enough to work out what's actually being asked.

That —err— automatically rules out anything fully-automated.

The review queue idea isn't necessarily bad. I doubt SE would want to implement it directly because not many other sites have things that are seasonal, but you could cobble something together with the API quite quickly. But be careful again. I'd want a reminder for reviewers that just because it's in a queue, doesn't mean it needs to be closed. Robo-reviewers —that is people not paying due care and attention— do enough damage already, we don't want to put people desperately trying to upgrade from 11.10 in their cross-hairs.

Some of the lighter ideas (eg bubble notifications) are a good idea. We have a few issues that could be solved by something like that. For example, expanding tags so you can store pop-up information. We could use that elsewhere, eg:

Oh you've used the wifi tag, have you included the output of lspci | grep -i net?!

Again this is something SE would need to look at but here there is a real chance it could improve other sites too. They might be up for it.

Your points here ignore the simple fact that not all questions about EOL releases are automatically off-topic so any system that attempts to look at tags needs to be intelligent enough to work out what's actually being asked.

That —err— automatically rules out anything fully-automated.

The review queue idea isn't necessarily bad. I doubt SE would want to implement it directly because not many other sites have things that are seasonal, but you could cobble something together with the API quite quickly. But be careful again:

• I'd want a reminder for reviewers that just because it's in a queue, doesn't mean it needs to be closed.

  Robo-reviewers —that is people not paying due care and attention— do enough damage already, we don't want to put people desperately trying to upgrade from 11.10 in their cross-hairs.

• Questions that were asked before it became off-topic, need to be excluded.

Some of the lighter ideas (eg bubble notifications) are a good idea. We have a few issues that could be solved by something like that. For example, expanding tags so you can store pop-up information. We could use that elsewhere, eg:

Oh you've used the wifi tag, have you included the output of lspci | grep -i net?!

Again this is something SE would need to look at but here there is a real chance it could improve other sites too. They might be up for it.

Your points here ignore the simple fact that not all questions about EOL releases are automatically off-topic. Therefore any system that attempts to look at tags needs to be intelligent enough to work out what's actually being asked. As such, that rules out anything fully-automated.

The review queue idea isn't necessarily bad but I'd want a reminder for reviewers that just because it's in the queue, doesn't mean it needs to be closed. Robo-reviewers —that is people not paying due care and attention— do enough damage already, we don't want to put people desperately trying to upgrade from 11.10 in their cross-hairs.

Some of the lighter ideas (eg bubble notifications) are a good idea, that could be worked together with requesting additional information when people use certain tags. "Oh you've used the wifi tag, have you included the output of lspci | grep -i net?", etc.

Your points here ignore the simple fact that not all questions about EOL releases are automatically off-topic so any system that attempts to look at tags needs to be intelligent enough to work out what's actually being asked.

That —err— automatically rules out anything fully-automated.

The review queue idea isn't necessarily bad. I doubt SE would want to implement it directly because not many other sites have things that are seasonal, but you could cobble something together with the API quite quickly. But be careful again. I'd want a reminder for reviewers that just because it's in a queue, doesn't mean it needs to be closed. Robo-reviewers —that is people not paying due care and attention— do enough damage already, we don't want to put people desperately trying to upgrade from 11.10 in their cross-hairs.

Some of the lighter ideas (eg bubble notifications) are a good idea. We have a few issues that could be solved by something like that. For example, expanding tags so you can store pop-up information. We could use that elsewhere, eg:

Oh you've used the wifi tag, have you included the output of lspci | grep -i net?!

Again this is something SE would need to look at but here there is a real chance it could improve other sites too. They might be up for it.