Timeline for Blocklist Google?
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| Jul 10 at 1:39 | history | edited | Robotnik | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
More appropriate tags; replace use of 'blacklist' --> 'blocklist'
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| Jul 18, 2019 at 15:51 | history | edited | animusonStaffMod |
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| Jul 18, 2019 at 12:32 | answer | added | gparyani | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jul 7, 2019 at 22:36 | comment | added | gparyani | @fixer1234 And I flagged the other one (the migration stub) for early deletion. It's worth noting that mods can't blacklist tags; an SE employee is needed for that. Your best bet is to get a moderator to escalate this request to the CMs; see this MSE answer for more info. | |
| Jul 7, 2019 at 22:20 | comment | added | fixer1234 | @gparyani, dealing with [google] and [microsoft] is a game of Whac-A-Mole. For some reason, the mods don't want to blacklist those tags. The latest post used the tag because it was recreated on a previous question that got migrated. When that happens, the question remains hidden here for 30 days, keeping the tag alive with no way to remove it. I removed it from the active question in the hopes that it will disappear from the system before another user finds it again and uses it. | |
| Jul 7, 2019 at 21:54 | comment | added | gparyani | As of July 2019, it was recreated again... | |
| Jan 4, 2019 at 17:18 | history | edited | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 19, 2018 at 0:28 | history | edited | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 1, 2017 at 23:15 | comment | added | smci | @Hastur: no, because many users are really lazy, esp. the ones who misuse this tag. Seems like << 1% of people read the tag descriptions. People just splatter whatever tags they think get a response and leave it at that. As to incurring bad luck, I'm reminded of the homing missile in 'Babylon AD' | |
| Dec 1, 2017 at 23:13 | comment | added | smci | @Robotnik: bad idea. [google-chrome] is not a synonym for many of the recent questions, they range from Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Cloud Print, Google Mesh, Google Drive, Google Compute Engine... really there is no common synonym. So unfortunately I think it needs to be blacklisted. | |
| Nov 27, 2017 at 21:45 | comment | added | Hastur |
What about to change the excerpt in something like: "This tag is deprecated. You have to search for an appropriate one among the others! If you nonetheless decide to use it, you should know that the use of deprecated tags on SuperUser brings a considerable quantity of bad luck." :-)?
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| Nov 25, 2017 at 17:15 | comment | added | fixer1234 | @Robotnik, it's a big hammer but seems like the appropriate tool. We don't want it used, and the majority of the time, any synonym will be incorrect and misleading. By making it impossible to use, it will force users to look at the suggestions that pop up or the larger list and pick a useful tag. | |
| Nov 25, 2017 at 12:38 | comment | added | Robotnik | Blacklisting is pretty extreme. What if we cleaned it out, then simply synonymised it with the largest tag (which is [google-chrome] by a large margin)? | |
| Nov 25, 2017 at 10:41 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/super_user/status/934371454665347074 | ||
| Nov 25, 2017 at 8:12 | history | edited | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
add clarifying reference to Meta discussion
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| Nov 25, 2017 at 8:09 | comment | added | fixer1234 | @El8tedN8te, I probably should have clarified the question (in fact, I'll do that). We've got about 35 Google-related tags. The one in this question is a "manufacturer meta tag". It refers just to the company name, which doesn't add value as a tag. Sorry for the confusion. See discussion here: meta.superuser.com/questions/8402/…. | |
| Nov 25, 2017 at 7:58 | comment | added | El8dN8 | Another consideration: Questions concerning google-related applications such as the Chrome Browser program and Google Drive desktop application should still persist on superuser; otherwise, they should go to another SE (if they concern working with, for instance, Google Docs). | |
| Nov 25, 2017 at 7:51 | comment | added | El8dN8 | If it does get blacklisted on superuser SE, all such posts should be put on the Web Applications SE - webapps.stackexchange.com | |
| Nov 21, 2017 at 17:53 | comment | added | Canadian Luke | Whatever is decided here, we need to add the featured tag so everyone can know we want to blacklist Google :-P JK | |
| Nov 21, 2017 at 8:36 | history | asked | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |