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Why are there no notifications for edits after I cast a downvote on it?

A new user creates a poorly written question. Very specific. ...snip... [You] see the question and downvote it. That's part of the concept to use downvotes for bad questions. I've always been of the …
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What is the comments section for?

You're right, sometimes people post what they think is an answer in the comments (generally without doing research or checking their facts). However, what comments should be used for is stated right …
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Tag Merge/Synonym: [copy-paste]->[clipboard]

The copy-paste tag is used for the clipboard actions Copying and Pasting. This should be merged with the existing clipboard tag, and synonymised so that future users can find the right tag. Thoughts …
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Should we really have the 'disciplined' badge?

There's two (normal) situations that I can think of where this badge would apply: The disciplined user posts a duplicate answer around the same time as another user. Upon checking the question later …
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Does question age trump answer quality when it comes to duplication? [duplicate]

As part of a bigger cleanup of the Logitech tag I stumbled across these two questions: Is there a 64-bit Windows 7 driver for a Logitech Wingman Formula Force wheel? asked: 4 years ago viewed: 159 …
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Do "unrar" and "unzip" deserve their own tags?

I believe compression should be sufficient for all (de)compression related questions. I would also synomymise zip and rar to compression so that people find it when attempting to tag with the aforeme …
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Merge: [charging] into [battery]

I don't see why charging should be a seperate topic area from battery, any battery will need to deal with charging, and any 'battery expert' is also going to know how to troubleshoot charging issues o …
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Basis for defining a tag?

I wouldn't worry about how many undefined tags we have - instead focus on making sure that the top-used tags* (tags covering ~90% of questions) have tag wikis (and excerpts) that are meaningful and de …
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Show comment count on search list

The Stack Exchange commenting system is meant for clarification of the question/answer and not extended discussion. …
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Time for [wake-up] to go back to [sleep]

The tag wake-up is used mainly to describe the process of waking up from sleep. I think that the process of system sleep/wake-up are too similar, (and ultimately about the same process) to warrant ha …
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We've hit some [traffic] and need to merge

traffic seems to be the same tag as network-traffic (some questions even use both at once). Should they be merged & synonymised? Furthermore, there is also traffic-filtering and traffic-shaping, I …
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Should we pair [unifying-receiver] with other [logitech-*] tags?

Logitech product tags exist in the form of [logitech-*] as outlined by yours truly on the Manufacturer & Company tag meta. However there's currently an outlier, which is the Logitech Unifying Receive …
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Audio tags cleanup

There are a bunch of audio-related tags. In a quick search, I found 5.1, surround-sound, stereo, audio, mono, audio-output, static and clicking-sound. As per it's tag description, mono is meant for au …
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Unmerge [msi] from [windows-installer]

status-completed The msi -> windows-installer synonym has been removed. We can now organise a proper cleanup of the windows-installer tag to remove any MSI-branded hardware questions.
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Could we rename [cmd.exe] to [windows-command-prompt]? [duplicate]

Microsoft refers to their standard command line interface as 'Command Prompt', yet our tag for it calls it by it's filename, cmd.exe. It's also inconsistent with how we have other CLIs and shells nam …
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