A use for difficulty tag proposals.

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Currently there is really no use for proposed difficulty tag proposals and I would like that to change. There should be some kind of way to "crowdsource" task difficulty.

One possible way to do this is assigning numerical values to all difficulty tags with greater numbers corresponding to higher difficulty. Then the "crowdsourced" difficulty level could be the median (floor(n/2)-th proposed tag by difficulty level if there were n difficulty tags proposed for given task).

Another possible solution is to overhaul the task difficulty ratings system. Difficulty tags like "Easy" or "Hard" could be replaced with a numerical value range - then the "crowdsourced" difficulty level would be the average score given within that range, displayed as "avg / max", with possible color coding to make such a numerical score more legible (eg. scores of 1-33% being green, 36-66% yellow, 67-100% red).

There are most certainly more possible implementations that I am missing and the two listed here are more so illustrative rather than concrete ready-to-implement proposals, however as the difficulty rating system stands, it is very lacking.

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I welcome coversation on this topic!