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What to do when a question, in content, leads to different answers based on title
Usually I ask the person (in a comment) "Did you mean to ask $this to solve $that".
Depending on his or her rep. I will then point out how to edit the post or edit the post. Often I also leave a com …
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Tags about nothing
This question was triggered by this edit but has been bothering me for a long time.
We have many tags without or with a very poor description. We had retag weekends. I think it is also useful to gene …
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Do "unrar" and "unzip" deserve their own tags?
IMHO: Nope, we do not need either of these four.
Especially not both the compress and the decompress version of the tags. Even if people vote for keeping them I suggest removing at least unrar/unzip
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Tab Tab Tab, is this browser on
We currently have multiple tab tags open on our site:
tabs Tabs are a graphical user interface feature that allows multiple documents to be contained within a single window.
browser-tabs
The tag h …
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Should we write information already in the tag in the body of our questions?
Yes, most of the time we should. As I see it:
The header describes the problem briefly.
The body contains all information, if possible including what was already tried and preferably one question. …
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Review Low Quality Posts - how to manage wrong answers?
I've run into a few similar challenges these last few days where the review system disagreed with the technically correct choice.
However just as in real life it is not about being right, but about g …
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Restrict tag creation?
I think either a review process for new tags could be a good thing.
Alternatively could we just make entering the tag description (short & long) mandatory and put all these in the review queue.
That …
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Are .htaccess questions ever on-topic on SuperUser?
I usually will answer question on "how do I configure outlook?", "How do I move this ost file?" "How do I print a hundred files to PDF without opening and printing each of them?". I do not see how "Ho …
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Ship [shipping] to /dev/null
We have six questions tagged shipping. The tag has no description and there seems to be no clear usage for it.
I would like to remove it completely.
Opinions please.
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How to deal with the numerous off-topic (business environment) Windows Server questions
Questions about administering a Windows Server system in a business
environment are off topic for Super User and should be asked on
Server Fault instead.
As a high snobbed [SF] user: Fuck n …
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Burninate or clean up the tag [dual]
We currently have 48 questions tagged dual.
There questions are on different subjects:
Dual ISPs
Dual dual mail accounts
Dual monitors
Dual graphics cards
Dual boot
Dual OS installations (installa …
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Archive the outlook-archive
We have 23 questions tagged outlook-archive and 113 questions tagged pst.
Both are about .pst files used by Outlook.
We do not have any special -archive tags for other programs. E.g. no thunderbird-a …
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r e n a m e spaces
We have two tags which seem to be text based: tabs & spaces.
However, tabs is defined for the graphical user interface feature that allows multiple documents to be contained within a single window, a …