Questions tagged [tags]
General questions about tag usage on the main site
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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