Get rid of them all!
You cannot have one manufacture without having the rest of them. either all the branded names will have to be removed, or none of them.
The actual branded item can still exist in the title of a question, and in the question without tagging the item itself with a brand, or clogging the site with commertialism.
It does not matter what brand the item is, All answers for the items will all be the same, no matter whos brand exists on the item. All experts are as affluent in one brand as the others.
Anyone who can Answer a question related to an Intel processor and motherboard, can just as easily answer a question for a AMD processor and motherboard , they are the same things.
Anyone who can answer a question about an ATI/amd products can just as easily answer a question about a Nvida product, they all use the same software, they are just generic video card items.
Anyone who can answer Mac Questions, should just as easily be able to answer Windows questions. Tag them all as systems or OS, leave off the branding
Having Favorited tags or Ignored tags for specific Branded items that a person knows nothing about, or a lot about , does not improve the site , or the ability for anyone to answer questions.
While your at it remove Photoshop and put it under graphic editors, and remove OSX and linux and put it under OSes and Remove Mac and windows and put it under PCs , take out Excell and replace it with spreadsheet. Remove synergy , SQLserver , remove the 6 branded IM messinger items, and put it all under IM. Remove all specific browsers, and put them under the browser headings, and all specific e-mail programs , and leave only 1 e-mail tag.
all media players under one tag, all text editing under one tag, all word processing under one tag. All branded software should be replaced with generic terms. All experts can easily answer questions about all software items reguardless of brand.
Add these to the list Cisco Oracle Verizon Aspire Synaptic Radeon AspireOne Gforce Nokia-e5 UltraBook Shuttle Sigmatel N900 Ipad Ipod Iphone Mother Zebra gigayte Airport-Extreeme Airport-Express AppleTV ati-mobility-radeon ati-radeon buffalo canon-lide canon-pixma commodore
and that is just some 10-15% of the Branded Hardware. The list for Branded software is endless. What I see is SU being overrun with zombies, and monsters, vampires, werewolfs, with goofy wrong and unnessisary tags being added every 15 minutes, dead tags galore, misspelled repeat tags, and hundreds of repeats for the same items.
Side Notes: I did a search for some specific branded items, and nothing came up for many companies involved in computers. If we dont remove the brands and companies that are there now, then we will have to add a few more so there is no favoritism.
Would there be a solution in having new tags be approved ?? or did all that get approved?
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