Questions tagged [tags]
General questions about tag usage on the main site
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What will happen to the Windows-8-Preview tag once Windows 8 goes live?
We currently have 385 questions tagged with windows-8-preview and looking towards the impending release of Windows 8 I am wondering what will happen to the -preview tag.
I guess that we will have a ...
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Merge tags trusted-root-certificates and trusted-root-ca
I can't really tell the difference between trusted-root-certificates and trusted-root-ca. There are some minor technical differences, like in PKIX, a CA requires basicConstraints=critical,CA:TRUE. But ...
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Rename [XBMC] tag to [Kodi]
XBMC was renamed/rebranded to Kodi: http://kodi.tv/introducing-kodi-14/
I'm not too clear on the right way to propose this.
Proposing:
new Kodi tag
make tag synonym for XBMC to point/resolve to ...
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Let user specify main tag for a question
I observed that a web page title for questions asked here is generated by the first tag + full question. However the ordering for the tags is fixed once added, unless one removes all tag and re-add ...
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What's the ports tag for?
Please add missing documentation of the ports tag. It might be interpreted as related to multiple network ports, FreeBSD ports or else.
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Should we merge tags `sublime-text`, `sublime-text-2` and `sublime-text-3`?
Whenever I ask a question regarding sublime text, I always include all three of these tags in order to attract the attention of anyone who has any one of them subscribed. This is because the programs ...
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When should the operating system be included in questions and tags?
On a question I recently asked regarding passwords on PDFs, a comment was made that the OS should be included in the description and a tag for it used. When is it a good idea to include the OS? It ...
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Adding 'language-highlighting' tag to a question, necessary?
Consider this question.
I provided an answer with a bash script. I did remember to add embedded Prettify language hints. The highlighting didn't get turned on. Then I found this post on Meta SE ...
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Should we delete the [homework] tag?
The homework tag is a meta-tag, which is explicitly discouraged. Should we delete the homework tag from all questions? Although a question may be about homework, there's nothing useful gained by ...
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Handling general plus specific tags in a question
In many cases, questions will be tagged with both a specific tag and a general tag. For example, network-interface and interface on a question dealing with network interfacing. Both tags are ...
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Zero Question Tags (Zombie Tags)
All right, this is a little bit embarrassing. What happens when a tag has zero questions?
I always thought that by removing questions from a tag, the tag will get purged. But, I was unsure about how ...
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Add google-cloud-platform, google-compute-engine tags
Can someone please add the following tags to Super User:
google-cloud-platform
google-compute-engine
I noticed several questions with these tags on Stack Overflow are being closed or put on hold ...
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Remove [asus-g73jh] tag
asus-g73jh has two questions. It is obviously too specific, I believe in both cases just asus would fit better.
I am new to the whole tag cleanup/merge/remove concept and I am still trying to figure ...
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The DOS tag is ambiguous
As it is, the dos tag is ambiguous. Even the tag wiki excerpt is split:
DOS is an acronym for "Disk Operating System." DoS is an acronym for "Denial of Service." Do not use this tag for questions ...
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Un-referencing the [reference] tag
It only has 7 questions, but I can't imagine reference is specific enough to be useful. I didn't want to just clear this out without asking others if it could be useful.
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Could we have a Windows 10 tag?
I just asked a question about Windows 10, and I noticed there isn't a tag yet. Could it be worth setting one up now, so it's in the correct format etc?
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Eliminate "windows" tag and use "windows-general" for nonspecific cases
EDIT: After discussion it is clear that trying to restrict the choice of tags is not the right way to guide tag selection. If there is ever considered to be a sufficient need for users to be more ...
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Raise the minimum rep needed to create new tags
Super User has a tag problem.
Due to many users who are not acquainted with the site barely reaching the rep threshold to create new tags, many such users misuse it, and that causes a problem as ...
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Should we be having periodic, full throttle cleanups?
Right now, we have a whole load of tags we need to kill off, but it's an uphill struggle.
We try not to flood the front page (and with awesome moderator powers, we could actually do that), but ...
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Could someone be nice enough to add windows-phone-8.1 as a tag to superuser.com?
I haven't enough rep. The windows-phone-8 tag exists but 8.1 not.
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The [filter] tag is ambiguous
See list of questions tagged filter: some of them are about ffmpeg filters (used for resizing videos and such), some are about filtering data in MS Excel, some are about organising emails... none of ...
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Merge [email-rules] and [email-filter]
email-rules has 1 follower and 61 67 uses:
Actions performed automatically on incoming or outgoing messages, based on conditions that you specify.
email-filter has 0 followers and 48 51 uses:
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Should There Be A Tag For ReactOS?
I posted a question today about ReactOS, and discovered there's no tag for it yet. I did a search for "reactos", but only a couple pages of results came up and many of them were for answers not ...
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Create tag for Java-8 on SuperUser
I don't have 300 rep, but I'd like the java-8 tag to be created, for the same reason that the java-7 exists.
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Do we need the [crapware] tag?
This question brought to my attention the [crapware] tag, in this context being used to refer to IE9.
In fact there are 6 tagged questions this way, so it's hardly a widespread issue, but it's better ...
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Do we need the "fastboot" tag?
The Super User homepage just turned light blue for me, due to lots of hard-drive tags (which I have marked as a favourite). The reason was that a user had added the fastboot tag to a bunch of posts.
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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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How should command line related questions be tagged?
This question/problem has come up multiple times in the past:
Is command-line a meta tag?
Retag cmd, cli, terminal, and terminal.app into command-line
SU Retag Request: [cmd] --> [command-line]
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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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