What does it mean for a feature request to be "valuable"?

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Some forum topics are marked with the “valuable” tag (I have in mind feature requests).

What does this mean?

I see that the tag can only be applied by mods/insiders/devs. So, presumably it means at least one person occupying one of the relevant roles thinks the suggestion is “valuable”. But, I wonder whether there are more precise criteria by which ideas are evaluated for valuableness. For example, a requirement that the idea is:

  • liked by a certain number of mods/insiders/devs
  • agreed to be valuable upon deliberation/discussion by mods/insiders/devs
  • agreed to be valuable based on possessing some qualities overlapping with the vision mods/insiders/devs have agreed they want to pursue

Disclaimer:
While I’d like to know the answer, I don’t take myself to be entitled to a thorough explanation. Perhaps the tag is there for mods/insiders, and the rest is none of my business. If so, no worries!

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There’s nothing else to it. Sorry to disappoint.

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I’m not disappointed at all!

Follow-up question: have I given an exhaustive list of the relevant occupations for assigning valuableness, or are there roles I didn’t mention?

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That would be the same for other tags like important and tracked? I’m not sure exactly what “tracked" means. Is it that someone in the team has used the Discourse option from below in the post?

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@Ham_n_pineapple would you mind editing/expanding the topic? To avoid opening another post.

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Those are also tags used internally by the team. The discourse’s “tracking” is a different thing.