Questions tagged [tags]
General questions about tag usage on the main site
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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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Correct tag(s) for Mac OS Classic (version 9 and earlier) questions
I ran into a question involving Mac OS 9: How do I find the MAC address in Mac OS 9?
How should questions involving legacy versions of Mac OS be tagged? I'm not sure if Tom Wijsman's tagging is ...
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Managing Management
file-management has 438 questions
power-management has 326 questions
password-management has 106 questions
memory-management has 51 questions
project-management has 45 questions
time-management has ...
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What is the difference between the "unzip" and "extract" tags?
I understand that unzip is referring to decompressing a file that has been previously compressed, but I don't understand the difference between unzip, and extract, considering also that, for example, ...
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Merge firefox-related tags?
Now that Mozilla is rolling out Firefox releases so quickly, does it really pay to keep creating separate tags for each new version? We currently have tags for firefox 3-6 including several ...
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Please make an Autodesk inventor tag and tag the inventor questions with it
I want to ask an Autodesk Inventor question, but there is no such tag. Can someone please create a [autodesk-inventor] tag?
These two questions would need it:
Installing Autodesk Inventor 11 Pro on ...
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The 'Things' tag should be renamed
things refers to the program Things. Makes sense. There was no wiki on this, so I just stumbled on to it. Of the 6 questions tagged with things at least 4 of them give some specifics as to what "...
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Difference between 'range' tags; discussion about wireless range/signal tags
We have a total of 27 range questions on SU. Of these, 15 refer to wireless-range and 12 to data-range.
My thought is to split these up into wireless-range and data-range and have the range be a ...
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Difference between CD tags
There are currently 239 questions tagged with cd and no distinction between Compact Disc and Change Directory. Additionally, there is no [chdir] tag. My thoughts are that there should be a chdir tag ...
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SuperUser tag for Adobe Photoshop [closed]
I am looking for a little guidance from the community.
Earlier today, I answered a question on SuperUser. After looking at the other Adobe-related tags already existing on SuperUser, I retagged the ...
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What’s up with the volume tag? [closed]
The volume tag is a mixup of partitioning questions and audio questions.
Could someone sort it out? (FYI it's the same mistake done by Polish Windows translators: translating "volume manager" like it ...
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Should we blacklist the [technical-support] tag?
24 questions are tagged technical-support. Should we get rid of it? Many questions on Super User (every question?) could be considered a form of "technical support". It's a vague term, and doesn't ...
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Possible to suggest tag(s) after scanning through the question?
Is it possible to add this feature - after user enter his/her question into the question text area, the website will auto insert some suggestive tags for the question and insert them automatically in ...
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Is there a way to block the recreation of the "bug" tag on the main site?
I've been editing out the bug tag from threads on the main site because I've noticed that there were just a few questions tagged with it and that it doesn't improve the post in any way that can't be ...
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How to remove a "frequented" tag?
Edit: Found a exact duplicate over on meta.StackOverflow: How do I remove a frequented tag?
In the upper right corner of the main page (below Ask Question) it says:
Frequented Tags
[firefox]
This ...
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mac, osx, and osx-lion tags
It seems that these tags are used very often to refer to the same thing (see here). In fact (unless I read the search results wrong) there are 1,860 questions that use both mac and osx, and 212 that ...
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Burn [computer-buying] tag
computer-buying has about 24 questions, almost all of which are closed for shopping recommendations. Can this tag be burned since questions about shopping are clearly off-topic?
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Missing and Disappeared tags
It looks like meta-tags missing and disappeared are still hanging around, if they were ever removed (see the earlier discussion on this).
I'm happy to go through and remove the tags, unless we want ...
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Re-tag option for Community Wiki questions is missing
Shouldn't there be a re-tag option, for community questions? Users can still re-tag questions by going through the edit menu.
Like this question.
EDIT: I have both buttons
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Can Trogdor please burninate the [must-have] tag
Found another meta tag today must-have
I call upon the mighty and hope that he does what he does best.
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What is the proper resolution for tags hijacking?
What to do when some tag was created with an obvious meaning, but later on took a different meaning entirely? For example, .cdr tag. It was created as "CorelDraw file extension", but later on used as "...
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kvm tag ambiguity
The kvm tag is used for both Keyboard-Video-Mouse switch and for Linux Kernel-Virtual-Machine infrastructure.
There are tags kvm-switch and linux-kvm
Is it worthwhile changing all 'kvm' tags to one ...
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Browse unanswered within a tag?
It does not appear possible to AND two filters, like "Windows" and "Unanswered". Perhaps an advanced search||settings page I'm not seeing?
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Favorite tags in Chrome isn't displaying correctly [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
SuperUser bug: badge border is cut off in Chrome, fine in Firefox
Chrome displays Favorite Tag on home page like this:
I have confirm this on Chrome v12, v13, and v14 on ...
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