Questions tagged [tags]
General questions about tag usage on the main site
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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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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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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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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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Tags are not appearing properly in Tags Field
Why this tags are not displaying properly on IE8?
Whether this is an known issue?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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Usage of the "Random" tag
The random tag seems to attract taggers of all kinds, from using random number generators (which I think is the right usage) to people complaining about their computers "randomly" shutting down.
How ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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What does the [keys] tag mean?
Tag keys seems to be in use for various things. What should be retagged?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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