Questions tagged [tags]
General questions about tag usage on the main site
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Should we have a sub-tag for beta/RC?
Something I was wondering about when coming across older win 7 RC and beta questions - In many cases bugs are specific to dev versions, or involve the newness of them. With the win8-dev-preview ...
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Should we nuke the [calculations], [research] and [malfunction] tags?
These tags have about a dozen questions each.
calculations and research are too general and ambiguous. A few questions tagged research do relate to hardware and software for academia, but even then ...
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Why votes on question don't change the tag vote count in the User Profile?
When you ask or answer a question the tags of such question appear in your profile, as people vote your answers the tag score on your profile increases/decreases.
Why doesn't it do the same for when ...
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request for burnination/synonyms
In reference to: Should we blacklist the [technical-support] tag?
Shouldn't we also do the same for customer-support and palm-support?
customer-support is general and also a large percentage of the ...
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How should one use the home tag?
Going through the home tag, it seems there are three primary uses:
The home folder,
computers that you leave at home, and
home networking
Which one should be used, if at all?
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Doesn't the "untagged" tag defeat the purpose?
Today, I noticed a new tag called "untagged." Doesn't that defeat the purpose of the tagging system? How do you flag a tag for removal?
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Tags that should never be the only ones on a question
It seems to me that there are some tags that if they are the only ones on a post (or even if they are mentioned at all) pretty much make the question off topic. Perhaps these tags should have a ...
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Tag order on the user profile page
As a feature, can the tags be ordered first by score, then alphabetically? As it is, it is hard to find a particular tag.
It would also be nice to be able to just sort alphabetically.
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What does the [keys] tag mean?
Tag keys seems to be in use for various things. What should be retagged?
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Request for new Dynamics CRM specific tags
Is it possible to create the tag dynamics-crm? There are questions tagged with crm that are specific to Dynamics CRM.
Maybe it's possible to create version specific tags in addition, like on SO: ...
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Ignore tags already added to the "Ignored Tags" list when adding new ones
When you add tags that should be ignored inside Prefs, the search results show all tags (up to six) that it can find. However, it also displays tags that are already on the ignore list:
For topics ...
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What is the difference between shopping recommendations and hardware-rec tagged questions?
I noticed that there is a hardware-rec tag that people use for hardware recommendations with over 200 questions. Earlier today I answered one that got a couple "shopping recommendations are off topic" ...
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Banned Tag Proposal: Hackintosh
Due to the legal gray area that exists with regards to building or running Hackintosh machines we have always discouraged these question on SU since it would attract unnecessary attention to the site ...
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How specific should tags get? e.g., [3tb-hard-drive] vs [hard-drive]
Been doing some tag cleanup recently and noticed this oddity:
Boot utilities for 3 TB hard drives
Now, in this case it almost makes sense since this is very specific to the potential problems that a ...
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'Lost' tag is meaningless
This is on 8 questions, and I just saw it used as recently as today. This seems like the definition of a meta tag to me and should probably go away, yes?
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Time to delete the eBook reader questions?
We have a few questions about eBook readers that I think could be deleted. Most are OT and only invites things like this: Why was this question closed?
kindle 33 15 questions
nook 3 0 questions
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Edit tags on migrated question
This question has been migrated to Stack Overflow (you'll probably have to search on [macro] to see the stub), and now because of the bad decision to link it directly to that question on SO, it can't ...
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Tag rename request: [excel] -> [microsoft-excel] & [powerpoint] -> [microsoft-powerpoint]
This question has been superseded by Can we please standardize the Microsoft tags?.
At the time of writing this, there are 722 questions tagged as excel & 161 questions tagged as powerpoint
I ...
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Empty tooltip for non-existing tag
When asking a new question and creating a tag that doesn't exist I get just an empty hover-up box.
I haven't tried to actually post a question with a bogus tag, so I'm not sure if this behaviour ...
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Future of the "fun" tag
I suggest we get rid of the fun tag. The questions are mostly wikis, closed or both and I think it matches all criterion for a meta tag.
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Can the hardware and software tags be obliterated?
Do we really need the hardware and software tags?
Looking at the tags into detail:
They don't group all the questions that should belong to them.
Their statistics don't make sense, they are both less ...
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What does the recovery tag mean?
What does the recovery tag mean, if anything? Or is it one of those overly broad tags whose questions haven't yet been recategorized into sub-categories?
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Tag sets and tag name consistency
Tag sets have introduced a way in which identical tag names are associated across SOFU & SX sites. We've got a few inconsistencies with SO, e.g., while excel and excel, are the user and ...
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Tagging hardware qn about Mac Mini Server
Asked on chat:
Tagging question: what are the right tags for qns about Mac Mini, Server edition? I've seen using mac-mini and server together, but there's also osx-server, and maybe a new tag, mac-...
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Do [missing] and [disappeared] constitute as meta tags?
There are (currently) 18 questions tagged missing
And 13 questions tagged disappeared
Am I right in believing that these tags are meta-tags and need to be wiped off ?
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null tag bug on Super User?
This question, as of this moment, has a "null" tag. There are four tag "buttons": linux, tools, "null", and threads.
"Retag" simply shows two spaces between "tools" and "threads".
Didn't try to fix ...
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Wrong "taxonomist" badge received
I just received a notification on the SU site that I was awarded a "Taxonomist" badge for the "autocomplete" tag.
The problem is that I did not create the "autocomplete" tag. Actually none of the 8 ...
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Exactly what does "ignored tags" do?
Maybe I stupidly missed the explanation somewhere... When I set some ignored tag (under "interesting tags") - just how does this affect my experience on SuperUser?
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Should we bury the old tag?
My tag crusade continues
The next tag I want to banish becaus I think it is a meta-tag is old
Is this a good idea?
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Is command-line a meta tag?
I noticed that command-line had no tag-wiki. So I thought I might try to add one. Unfortunately I wasn't among the top 20 answerers in that tag so I couldn't do it.
I then thought about the bash tag(*...
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Super User tagging convention: Ubuntu and variants
I know I promised to open this a long time ago...
Super User has settled into some ad-hoc, but well-established, conventions for tagging questions about operating systems and their various versions. ...
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Why is the question tagged twice with the same tag and yet the question count does not match ?
This question has been tagged twice with [windows-7-x64]. Oddly, the same tag shows up twice, with different counts. Clicking on each of those tags, brings the same questions, although one less than ...
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Bugs with tagging questions
While editing a post tonight I noticed this bug with the tags. There were two of the same tag (windows-7-x64), and several tags with 0 uses but still showing up. Seems broken, unless I'm missing ...
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tag + tag-version, or just tag-version?
Should questions about a specific version of something have both the general tag of it and the version tag, or just the version tag? For example: If I'm asking "How do the Home and Professional ...
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SuperUser Tagging Question: Software/Hardware/Product Recommendations
On SuperUser there are lots of questions which are looking for product recommendations for various purposes. These can range between hardware, software, or other types of products. Right now there are ...
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Super User's Internet Explorer tagging convention
So far questions on Super User are being branched off into separate tagging conventions with regards to Internet Explorer.
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internet-explorer
ie8, internet-explorer-8, etc.
I am posting this to ...
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Biometric or biometrics?
Currently biometrics is the more popular tag, at 4 questions, compared to biometric which only has one question. Which is should be the canonical tag?
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Should virtualization questions be tagged as both virtualbox and vmware?
Should virtualization questions be tagged as both virtualbox and vmware?
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Why is Windows XP tag showing zero questions ?
I noticed this while retagging a question, a search for questions tagged [windows-xp] returns 12 questions, so why is the tagging area indicating that there are no questions tagged [windows-xp] ?
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SU tags: recommend better tag for DSL (the linux distribution)
Someone posted this question on Damn Small Linux and tagged it [dsl]. Once I figured out why, I checked the other [dsl] questions and found another.
Since there were only two, I retagged manually. ...
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Why are the tags on my page arranged reverse alphabetically?
I just noticed. They are opposite of what I though they would be!!
Have a look:
https://superuser.com/users/8829/eskay
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Super User - Suggest adding an operating system tag
When asking a question on Super User, add a suggestion for users to include their "operating system" when adding tags.
It's such a common omission in questions on Super User, I think an extra ...
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Superuser's software says “'cores' are new tags” instead of “'cores' is a new tag” -- fixable?
Superuser says to me:
Oops! Your question couldn't be
submitted because:
* new users can't create tags; 'cores' are new tags
Shouldn't this say "'cores' is a new tag"?
Just a suggestion.
Christopher Done
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superuser tag prerequisites
should questions on SU have a tag prerequisite for being either hardware or software, as all questions in theory should fall into at least one or other of those categories?
quite a few Q's are ...
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