See Categorized Q&A Suggestion for one of my earlier suggestions (focuses more on XP gains and losses, but...)

As a Q&A Editor (for some time, quite active, but recently too swamped to devote lots of time to it), let me make this observation. Editing Categorized Questions and Answers is pretty difficult.

• When a user posts a bad title, but I/we don't find it until there have been answers, it is quite tedious to correct the title. We have to go into each response and edit each title to make them all match.
• There has been an increasingly increasingly large number of posts to Q&A (the increase has been increasing ;-). This displays the success of PM, but it makes it harder to stay on top of the questions and screen them for content. It is pretty easy to miss a question or three.
• It is difficult to "move" a post from Q&A to SoPW. You have seen how I handle that, I'm sure. It takes two browser windows, quite a bit of cut-and-paste, and some status bar perusing to get links to work to and from the new node.

I would like to see:

• New questions remain in a "New Questions" area, unassigned to a category until an editor assigns them. This prevents a flood of questions from escaping our notice. (Currently, we can see the last ten questions posted. If there are more than ten un-moderated questions, the excess will go completely unedited.)
• Allow Editors to change a Question Title, and have that new title 'cascade' to all answers. The titles are the single-most important part of a question, because that is how users search for answers. It should be easier to maintain those titles.
• Allow a Question to move to SoPW, taking all answers with it. I understand from earlier, offline discussions with vroom that Q&A nodes exist in a different format than SoPW nodes. It will not be easy to move Q&A nodes. However, I know that I have tried to 'delay' the editing of a misplaced question, because it has already received answers. I didn't want to delete the answers because they were helpful, but I couldn't move the question and take the answers with it. So, I move it to "Unassigned" to come back to it later.
• A willingness to add/modify categories. Some of the categories are just too broad (see CGI for example).

Russ
Brainbench 'Most Valuable Professional' for Perl

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