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plasma tag itself is too generic, should be compounded and split into TV and workspace
As things stand right now, plasma is ambiguous. Questions labeled with it refer both to plasma TVs and to the KDE graphical environment, and this doesn't seem correct to me.
I suggest deleting the ...
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Poppin Tags - or an idea anyway
Why are new Tags not treated like first posts from a new user or suggested edits, but a bit more stringent?
My thought:
If a new tag is created, why does it not go to the review bin for voting by ...
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How to fix a problem with no rep
After finding a problem with something, what is the most appropriate way to alert a moderator if you do not have any reputation? Would it be a good idea to post the problem at all even if it is not in ...
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Duplicate tags for "USB stick" never closed
This question is still in action:
What is the standard term for a USB flash-drive/pen/thumb/stick?
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I have found 4 usb drive tags:
usb-flash-drive
usb-drive
usb-stick
usb-storage
Perhaps there ...
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How do we keep dead tags dead?
We killed off this tag some time ago - I noticed it in use during the current cleanup, and it has been used 360 times since then (at least). I suppose that there's a perfectly good reason, other than ...
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The [xps] tag... What is it intended to refer to?
I just noticed that the xps tag seems to refer to two different things: the Dell computer series, and the .xps file type. Which was it intended to refer to, and if one, should the tag be removed from ...
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Rename [extreme] tag to [extreme-conditions] or remove it
There are currently 3 questions tagged with extreme:
One relates to extreme temperatures, the second to extreme tabbed browsing (massive pressure on the computer), and the third to temperatures and ...
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The khanacedemy tag - yay, nay or burninate?
I just rejected a tag wiki and tag wiki excerpt edit for the khanacademy tag.
The reason I gave was "Tag is for a website, as opposed to hardware or software. Rejected as per FAQ. Feel free to bring ...
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Please add a tag for elliptic curves [closed]
Here. My carma doesn't allow to do this.
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Rename [tab] tag to [tab-key]
Can we rename tab to tab-key (and synonymize), so people won't tag questions about a single tab (e.g browser tab) with tab instead of tabs?
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Tag prefixes (like wireless-networking and networking)
I know that there are easy ways to deal with tags like windows and windows-7 (specifically, windows-7 includes windows). What happens with tags like wireless-networking and networking?
It seems like ...
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Should we be getting rid of unversioned tags where there clearly is a version?
I don't really see a point in questions being double tagged as brand-product product-version, can we please change these to brand-product-version as this would cover both tags? What do you think?
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"mono" tag as in "vs .net" and as in "vs. stereo"
There seem to be two uses of the tag "mono", one for questions related to audio and one for questions related to the Mono framework.
Wouldn't it be better to create a tag "mono-framework" and retag ...
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Suggest a Corel Painter tag
I´m learning Corel Painter. Very nice software, but a little overwhelming for new users, I have a few questions, but Super User doesn´t have the proper tag, it has only CorelDraw, wich is no useful.
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Grouping various tags regarding energy efficiency
I've recently gained the rep to retag, so when I saw this question and didn't think the energy tag made sense (yes it's about energy, but really something like "energy efficiency" would be ...
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SU tagging conventions: [videocard] vs [graphics-card], general PC component tags
The burning question I need the Super User community to answer is:
Which tag should Super User keep?
[videocard] (173) (if kept, should it be renamed "[video-card]"?)
[graphics-card] (142)
[gpu] (...
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What is the standard term for a USB flash-drive/pen/thumb/stick?
There are several questions, particularly on Super User, which refer to the use of these drives but there isn't a standard term in use nor a standard tag. Though SU has 'thumb drive', it is not ...
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Should the "certificates" and "trusted-root-certificates" tags be merged?
On SU there are these two tags dealing with certificates:
certificate
trusted-root-certificates
I'm wondering, are they too close to each other to have meaningful difference? I mean, should we just ...
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Could anyone create a tag called "program-like"?
Could anyone create a tag called "program-like"? It would be for questions that try to find a programs with the defined features (It´s a way I used to use this website, I define the features of an ...
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System tag looks suspiciously like a meta tag
What exactly is the system tag? It doesn't even have a wiki. Looks like a meta-tag to me.
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Difference between tags virus, malware, trojan, infection,worm
From most used to least used (including related tags):
virus x 501
anti-virus x 453
virus-removal x 56
malware x 256
malware-removal x 37
malware-detection x 13
anti-malware x 11
trojan x 70
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Do not automatically expire single-use tags
There is an automatic job that deletes single-use tags after 6 months. No attempt is made at determining whether the tags are good and should remain, or whether the tags are a variant name of another ...
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How do I make pretty "tag"s in-question?
I know about using backticks to make code blocks, but how do I get pretty, clickable tag-things in questions?
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Too many tags for Windows installation?
windows-installer x119
windows-installation x80
At least one needs to go. I would remove both and replace with applicable windows, windows-7, windows-8, ... and optional installation.
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How can I completely hide all questions with a certain tag?
Now that Windows 8 is out, my questions feed is overrun with Windows 8 questions. At this moment in time, 31 out of the 50 questions on the main page are about Windows 8.
I've got no experience with ...
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How should be approach Windows 8 Store apps tags?
There are times where users have specific question about specific apps within Windows 8. How should we tag these specific questions?
I propose we do the following:
Have a general windows-8-store-...
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What is the [what-is] tag for?
what-is seems like the very definition of a meta tag.
Should we whack it?
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Meta questions missing required tags
There's an even dozen older posts on Meta Super User that lack any of the required tags (i.e., bug, feature-request,discussion, or support).
It used to be that Moderators could post questions without ...
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How do I remove the selected tag filter when searching for Unanswered questions on Superuser?
I've been looking for unanswered questions trying to build some reputation here. Once I select a tag filter in the sidebar, I'm shown all of the questions with that tag. Choosing more tags makes the ...
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If FAQ forbids shopping questions, what is a shopping tag for?
If the FAQ forbids shopping questions, what is the shopping tag for?
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We need to kill the [domain-registrar] tag
The tag, domain-registrar is pretty useless and out of topic, it needs to be killed.
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Tags like 'Windows' should be more general in its filtering
There are a few windows tags which includes
windows
windows-xp
windows-vista
windows-7
etc
Now, I don't use Linux / Mac / Unix etc, I'm 100% Windows. So when I select the windows tag (under ...
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Lotus tag cleanup
While looking through some questions on lotus-notes, I found that some of them were also tagged with lotus, which has 34 questions. Looking through the lotus, many of them are just about Notes, one ...
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Create Tag for BHO on SU
Like google-chrome-extensions, please create a tag for browser-helper-objects (BHO) on superuser.
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What should the [microsoft] tag be used for? [duplicate]
Initially, I assumed microsoft (132) is about the company. But I took a brief look through them and didn't find any about the company.
In fact, all the question seem to be about various Microsoft ...
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Do we need the [version] tag?
There's currently 47 questions tagged with version.
Although some questions might be in regards to different versions of software, I don't think tagging them with "version" adds anything constructive,...
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Super User mid 2012 tag/question cleanup [closed]
During my course of reviewing, editing & general janitorial cleanup, I ran into a few tags that were pretty much useless. Since there's too much for me to take action up, I'm posting the list here....
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Superuser tag never appropriate?
How do I turn off the pop-ups that appear everytime I mouse-over a tag?
The question was migrated but there was no tag cleanup.
https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/superuser
Seems there would ...
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Could someone be nice enough to add windows-7-starter as a tag to superuser.com?
I would do it but I only have 150 rep.
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Ignore Windows related questions?
I've been active on Android Enthusiasts mostly so far and answer more than ask questions there. I guess it'll be the same over here so here's my question:
I'm not a huge Windows expert and thus would ...
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How do I turn off the pop-ups that appear everytime I mouse-over a tag?
Title says it all, I find it incredibly distracting and it's frequently difficult to get them to go away once they've appeared.
Doubt if it's relevant, but I'm using Firefox on Windows.
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Find the tags with the most/least answered questions
Is there a way to view this?
I know that by clicking on the tag will show the number of questions that are answered overall, in the last 30 days, and the last 7 days.
Is there a broader list that ...
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Merge [multi-user] into [multiple-users] [closed]
Merge the tag mutli-user into multiple-users. They refer to the same concept and the term multiple users is a little more clear than multi user.
And to convince you, I have dragged up the relic that ...
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When to use [printer] vs [printing]?
Just came across printer and printing.
Is it useful to keep both? When to use which one?
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Rename tag [tortoise-svn] to [tortoisesvn] to be consistent with other stack* sites
I world like to propose tha the tag tortoise-svn is renamed to tortoisesvn, because that is the tag that is used on stackowerflow.
That makes the cross site feature tagging better.
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Make [arch] a synonym of [arch-linux]
The tag arch has 14 questions compared to arch-linux's 209 questions. We could manually retag those few questions.
But Arch is a popular shortcut for Arch Linux and it is possible that this would ...
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Editing OS-specific questions or answers if the question or answer will also apply to another OS [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should the original intent of a question be broadened to make the answers more canonical?
I recently found out that this question - How print multiple independent pages in one ...
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Burn the stackexchange tag on the main site
Personally, I cannot think of a single question that would be on topic that uses that tag, and the questions currently tagged with this tag reflect that.
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Is it okay to create a tag for a specific class of problem?
I've recently noticed 4 different questions that come down to "I've noticed that I get full speed from my Linksys Wi-Fi AP right after I reboot/reset/reconfigure it, but after a few minutes it goes ...
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