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Is the `windows-8.1-preview` tag really needed?
As the title says, is the windows-8.1-preview tag really needed, especially as we're near the release of the Windows 9 Developer Preview (or beta, whatever it is).
The Windows 8.1 Preview is over a ...
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Reduce Tag Ambiguity by Requiring Objects for Transitive Verbs
It's all in the title I'd say...
In short, I'm suggesting that we add 'object' validation for single-transitive verb tags without object qualifiers... For instance ... 'split' would require the ...
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Would Altap Salamander deserve a tag of its own?
Would Altap Salamander (also known as Servant Salamander) deserve a tag of its own or is it not notable enough?
Another two-pane file manager, the free (as in beer) Total Commander currently has 52 ...
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Help us clean up tags!
Tags on Super User are meant to categorize posts to help people with specific expertise or interests to quickly discover posts that are relevant to them.
Over time we've collected quite a few ...
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Merge the tags [windows-live-movie-maker] and [windows-movie-maker]
windows-live-movie-maker and windows-movie-maker are the same thing, at least according to the questions.
Shouldn't these two be merged (if possible) / made synonyms?
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Have a prompt when a tag is created
When a tag is created, a prompt should be raised, just so that people know they they are creating a tag, and are doing it intentionally.
I think that should solve address the answers to my previous ...
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A new way to clean up tags
This is the proposal. Please see Help us clean up tags! for the result.
Let's face it, we have tons of horrible tags.
In the past, we used Old monthly tag cleanups to keep track of what needs to be ...
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Replace the `Surface` tag?
Users having a Microsoft Surface Computer/Tablet are using the microsoft-surface tag. But I also find some questions having just surface, which does not have a lot to do with the Microsoft Surface ...
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Old monthly tag cleanups [closed]
This post is no longer active. It is preserved for historical reasons only. For more info on our new tag cleanup procedure, see:
Help us clean up tags!
A new way to clean up tags
The following tags ...
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What happens with Server tag
Currently I'm trying to add Server tag to this question.
But when I add it, something strange happens. Here are the screenshots:
Adding tags:
Clicking "Save Edits" tells that "Server" tag does ...
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Can the 'logo' tag be killed?
The logo tag is currently used by a grand total of three questions:
A no-background favicon for my website?
Windows 8.1 start-up logo replaced with ASUS logo after BIOS update
How to change the BIOS ...
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Tag Request: TAILS
I am unable to add this tag For the OS (see image below). It's an acronym for the Linux distro known as "The Amnesic Incognito Live System". This is an example question referring to TAILS and the ...
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Should we outright ban a few tags when we know they don't belong here?
We could do a lot to better serve the SU community if we killed off some tags en masse. If we're going to maintain many confusingly similar sites, perhaps we should just reject tags like nginx which ...
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Can we have icons for tags the way Stack Overflow has?
Stack Overflow has images/icons on a lot of tags like for Android and CUDA.
Can we incorporate this on Super User as well?
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How to know correct or suitable tags to my question?
It will be good always to see quick response in the form of answers and comments from the community. But how to know correct or suitable tags to my question for quick and suitable people attraction to ...
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Tags Taking out the trash Or Creating a bigger mess?
There are hundreds of tags that do not even need discussion, and
never should have been created. They are at the Far end of the tags,
and they are not magically dissapearing. And many of them do not
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Why shouldn't acceptance of an answer count towards a tag's score?
When you vote a question or an answer, the votes contribute towards the tag score.
It would seem to be that if an answer is marked as the answer, that says more about the the poster's strength in ...
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Enable Non-Mods to edit meta questions with "protected" tags:
I was updating the Top Question of the Week 1 question for the blog and wasn't able to make any changes due to the fact that some of the tags used were "protected". Is there a way that we can enable ...
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general OS tagging on SU
On SO it's usual to find a generic tag (such as "android") together with a more specific tag (such as "android-marketplace"). This, in my opinion, is the correct way to do it.
On SU however, there ...
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Increase reputation requirement for tag editing on SuperUser
I spent some time this evening going through the tags on SuperUser, and considering the wider audience it attracts, which are much more inexperienced the ability to edit tags gets abused quickly. This ...
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Tags problem for Superuser
Uservoice was discontinued, so I come here with this.
The concept behind superuser is somewhat different than that of Stackoverflow and Serverfault.
Questions about software are often limited to a ...
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Tag name not viewable when doing search on superuser
When doing a term search on superuser.com and it switches the term to a tag. If the tag is a tag you are following, you can't read the tag text unless you hover over the tag. The tag get places under ...
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Why are people making up tags when we have one?
People are making up new tags to mean the same thing. There needs to be a definitive tag for each meaning.
Search for "multi" in Tags. Find:
multiple-monitors x12
multiscreen x3
multi-monitor x2
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Some tag edits cause a demand for body edits
Usually, when editing the tags on a question as part of a tag cleanup simply editing the tag is accepted by the system.
Most recently: here and here
Occasionally, a popup appears demanding 6 ...
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How can the spelling of a tag be changed?
I recently wrote my first tag wiki for the namedranges tag because I noticed several questions had been applied the tag, and there was no information about the tag.
I would really like to change ...
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Different Categories of Windows
Should we break up the Windows version tags into categories?
Sometimes when I ask a question about Windows 8, I'm afraid more people have Windows 7 than 8, and so more people with Windows 7 would ...
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Most tag searches appear to result in no questions if last tab was "Featured"
If the user was browsing Featured questions from the home page, and then searches for a tag, it appears to the user that there are no questions of any kind for that tag.
Repro:
Navigate to the main ...
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Tag Editing - Process?
There was a tag that I thought was a meta tag here on Super User. I clicked on it, then looked through the questions. Some are tagged properly with it, but others (many others) are using the tag ...
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Tags go totally nuts on hover
There's a certain area around tags where they will flip constantly between their normal and hover states. Please see the following video for an illustration of the issue:
This is in Chrome stable in ...
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Tag display wraps across lines
The list of tags at the bottom of a question is wrapping after the left border of a tag (view this question in Opera(perhaps other browsers also) and look at bottom tag list.
Screenshot:
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Tags are not appearing properly in Tags Field
Why this tags are not displaying properly on IE8?
Whether this is an known issue?
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Removal of html tag because HTML questions are off-topic
I recently had a html question put on hold here and I think I speak for a lot of people when I say although the questions are seen to be put on hold, the fact that there is a tag for html suggests to ...
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Is there any way to see all the questions that are tagged with my favorite tags?
I want to visit http://superuser.com and I want to see just all the asked questions or all active questions that are tagged with my favorite tags.
I know I can search with one tag, but I want to ...
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Can we rename "window" to "gui-window"?
When I was looking around in the windows tag (while waiting for an answer...) I noticed that many people when they were talking about the Windows OS, they tagged it both with windows and window.
I do ...
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Why are safety and security synonyms?
In the first lesson in my information security class I learned how bad the German term "Sicherheit" is, which can be translated to either security or safety, which makes it hard to distinguish between ...
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What's the proper tag for questions about differences between software editions?
If somebody asks what are the differences between two editions of the same application, how should the question be tagged? For example Difference between resin and resin pro is currently untagged and ...
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Questions about beta/pre-release software. Why are there still 73 questions tagged [Windows-8.1]?
Questions about bugs in pre-release/beta software or prototype hardware are off-topic. Bugs in pre-release products are common and even expected, and are often fixed before the final version is ...
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Bottom border of tags is cut off when editing or creating posts
I first noticed this in the review queue on the main site, but it also occurs on both the main site and the meta site when asking a question.
Main site, review queue
Meta site, asking a new question
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Can we have all ICS questions re-tagged?
Why is it that ics is used for questions relating to iCalendar? Can we have iCal or even iCalendar instead? I don't know if upper casing is allowed in tag names, but this could also be ical or ...
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Tamil tag... why?
Continuing my rant on chat, let me rephrase why I don't think is needed, addressing each question problem:
Free tamil word processors: Is about a word processor, not something that critically depends ...
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Make the edit tags button not bump a post
Four to five times a week I find my self answering a 2-3 year old question on the front page that I do not realize is a old (potentially abandoned) question that Hennes edited to do tag cleanup on (...
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Isn't it better to remove Linux and Windows tags?
Every time i see a question related to linux, i have to ask the user what distro are you using? Same applies to Windows.
I think a linux tag is appreciated on unix.stackexchange.com since some users ...
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Should the [windows-8.1] tag be a synonym of [windows-8]?
Windows 8.1 is due for release very soon, and I recently noticed the windows-8.1 tag. I wanted to bring two questions up for consideration:
Should the tag windows-blue also exist, and be made a ...
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Sorting out Chrome-related tags
Someone's muddled the chrome-related tags!
Chromium is an open-source web browser. Chrome is a closed-source derivative of Chromium made by Google. Chrome OS is an operating system based on the ...
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Shouldn't the hardware tag be enabled?
Currently, the "Hardware" tag is disabled:
However, things such as "Hardware-failure" are allowed.
The reason the tag was closed (based on my research) is that it lead to quite a bit of shopping ...
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Color valid tags differently from invalid tags
I have an interesting idea for how tags work. No, it is not the new and improved tag, or a total tag makeover. In fact, it is a small change in how tags work that I think could help out a lot of ...
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Merge [pen-tablet] into [graphics-tablet]
Both pen-tablet and graphics-tablet appear to describe a computer input device that enables a user to hand-draw images and graphics.
(source)
Since we don't need two tags describing the exact same ...
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Are there Badges for all Tags?
I just received my first "Tag" Badge (Microsoft-Excel, yeah!). When I looked into the Tags that had badges, I didn't notice any particular system for which Tags had Badges (at any level).
Are ...
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RSS feed for favorite tags?
I noticed that every tag has its own RSS feed, it's a handy feature to follow particular subjects.
I wonder of there is something similar for own favorite tags: I know that I can individually ...
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It is ok to to edit posts to add tags that are related to answers rather than questions? [duplicate]
I'd like to know if it is ok to add a tag to a post that help categorizing it but it is more related to the answer rather than to the question.
This doubt is related to this question How to create an ...