There are currently 7K posts tagged with feature-request.
Surprisingly, 6K of those posts(date of posting ranges from today to over 11 years ago) had no moderator-only-tag, such as status-completed or status-declined, added to them. Why is that?
The description of the status-declined tag is as follows:
Indicates that the feature request will not be implemented, or that a bug will not be fixed at present time.
So why does it seem so rare to have a status-declined tag added to a feature-request post where the feature clearly will not be implemented at the present time?
Another thing that I am a bit confused with is with these two posts:
Introduce new badge: Mentor (posted yesterday)
Bronze Badge Request: Confident (posted an year ago) (disclaimer: this is my post)
Both of the two feature-request posts (which are also badge-request posts) seem to be equally negatively received by the community, yet the one from yesterday got a status-declined tag added to it, and the one from nearly a year ago didn't.
Which factors dictate whether a feature-request post gets tagged or left un-tagged with a status tag?