Timeline for How to handle acronym tags, especially if not unique?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:58 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://mathoverflow.net/ with https://mathoverflow.net/
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| Aug 29, 2016 at 19:21 | comment | added | fixer1234 | I was thinking you might be right about basically having to just pick the least objectionable alternative. But your answer triggered an idea for a solution. | |
| Aug 29, 2016 at 15:09 | comment | added | Ben N | @fixer1234 I finally got around to updating my answer in response to the question edit. Sorry for the delay. | |
| Aug 29, 2016 at 15:09 | history | edited | Ben N | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
reflect updated question
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| Aug 21, 2016 at 20:25 | comment | added | fixer1234 | BTW, if adb is part of the tag name, it will show up when the user enters it as long as there aren't too many tags that contain that combination of letters somewhere. I don't think sticking it in the excerpt affects the tag showing up in the results list. Maybe the best solution is to include (adb) (in parentheses if the system accepts that), as part of the tag name (in addition to it being spelled out). Then all tags containing that will get listed and the user can choose. | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 20:11 | comment | added | fixer1234 | DavidPostill's revelation changes things. I rewrote the question. Not sure what the best (or available) solution is. Suggestions? | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 19:35 | comment | added | Ben N | @fixer1234 I updated my answer with new information presented by DavidPostill. | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 19:35 | history | edited | Ben N | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 26 characters in body
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| Aug 21, 2016 at 19:33 | comment | added | DavidPostill Mod | adb is also a Unix debugger en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Debugger | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 18:31 | comment | added | Ben N |
I would be surprised if another in-scope technology was ever named something that acronymizes to adb; it's fairly well-known and marketing people usually try to avoid name collisions. I think the HAMP acronym is a different situation: I couldn't find any reference to it (other than that SU question), much less one that is related to computing.
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| Aug 21, 2016 at 18:21 | comment | added | fixer1234 | Good point, but that's today. What are the odds that in a year or two, there won't be multiple things that adb is used for? I'm thinking of the recent HAMP question. I had no idea what that was and couldn't even find a reference to it in Google, but it will soon be in common use. | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 18:13 | history | answered | Ben N | CC BY-SA 3.0 |