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If anything, that would be a tag, not a section. That is, someone might tag a question as interesting for beginners, or maybe for experts.

In any case, having experts solve the basic stuff is wonderful. One, it gives expert advice to beginners, so they get it right straight from the beginning. Two, it helps the experts by giving them constant review of the basics. Too often "experts" create elaborate solutions because they forgot (or never learned) some (rarely used) simple feature.

It even helps beginners who attempt to solve complex issues, because it makes them think. People can easily walk away when they realize the problem is too advanced for them, but until that point, thinking about the problem is helpful in overall skills.

There might be some benefit to categorization, though i don't think it would be worth the losses.

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Re^4: Categorization by level
by jdporter (Paladin) on Feb 26, 2015 at 05:03 UTC
    If anything, that would be a tag, not a section.

    Right; I don't think the OP was suggesting the use of sections; I only see mention of categories.

    I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.
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      Hmm... Now that you point it out, i see where you could translate it that way. Though, "a categorization of questions" still sounds to me like some form of sectioning.

      Eh, it's not like it matters anyway. :)

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        Of course, uh... we do have an oft-overlooked little ol' thang called Categorized Questions and Answers. :-)

        It implements "categories" as a system of what are essentially sub-sections, though, not tags; and what the OP is suggesting would be utterly orthogonal to the taxonomy we've created there. Just sayin'.

        I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.
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