I would not mind tagging questions as closed, so that I can put closed in my 'not interesting list' and ignore them. It's kind of a hack to save those micro-seconds I spend on closed questions. What do you think?
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2\$\begingroup\$ The MSO question on this subject (with a Jeff answer) - Can Closed questions be hidden/filtered? - its also not difficult to do via search: is:question closed:no [java] and variations on that. \$\endgroup\$– user22048Nov 23, 2013 at 22:24
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What if a closed question already has 5 tags?
Tags are for categorizing questions, not to filter them by status. If we go forward with this, soon we'll want a on-hold, a protected and then a locked, migrated and why not a deleted...
These things belong in the question's title, like blablabla [on hold].
Since the idea is to have these questions show as "not interesting", perhaps there could be a feature-request made, to make questions with one of these statuses show up faded in the questions list, like questions tagged with "ignored tags"?
answered Nov 12, 2013 at 13:32
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1\$\begingroup\$ I'd agree, if I could filter on titles. \$\endgroup\$– konijnNov 12, 2013 at 14:10
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\$\begingroup\$ @tomdemuyt how about simply having them show up as "not interesting", as if they were tagged with one of your "ignored tags"? (see edit) \$\endgroup\$ Nov 12, 2013 at 14:27
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1\$\begingroup\$ The difference is that there's no tag involved, rather just the question list made a little bit "smarter". \$\endgroup\$ Nov 12, 2013 at 14:39
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1\$\begingroup\$ That could work as well, and we would avoid the extra tagging. \$\endgroup\$– konijnNov 12, 2013 at 14:48
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2\$\begingroup\$ I'd actually upvote such a feature request. I did downvote this one though, because of the idea of introducing these tags. I think it should be posted on MSO though (wouldn't it be SE-wide?). \$\endgroup\$ Nov 12, 2013 at 14:59
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1\$\begingroup\$ Not to go meta on meta, but I think down-voting means that the style of the question is bad, not that you disagree with the content ;) \$\endgroup\$– konijnNov 12, 2013 at 15:02