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Gilles was nice enough to share a Data.SE query with us identifying tags with similar names, prime candidates for cleaning up and possibly synonym creation. I consider the following to be false positi …

links is used for Hyperlinks (web sites, HTML emails, ...) Soft links and hard links on filesystems Library linking Someone probably even used it for the web browser... Therefore it is not useful …

These two tags mean the same thing: The pointing device usually built into laptop computers. The tags for these should be merged. touchpad x 177 trackpad x 52 Vote on the answers below for your pr …

run It's often about the Windows run dialog, and often it isn't. Therefore it's pretty useless.

For bug, feature-request and discussion, the opening post (question) is at least as important a contribution to the site as any answer. …

A few flags of mine were declined when I flagged answers that suggest to do things the OP dismissed as not working right in his question. The reason for being declined is the following: declined - fl …

Is the last activity date of a topic relevant in deciding whether a given change makes the relevance threshold when editing, or deciding on a suggested edit? Are smaller, less important edits fine …

This week, slhck (pictured) and me received our SU anniversary contest prizes. I really like most of the stuff I got. But the Super User mug design sucks. It gets the Y U NO guy meme totally wr …

This is a bit related to this topic on MSO. In a recently suggested and approved edit a tag was added to the topic, but it only became applicable through the answer. The user didn't know the tag was …

Apple.SE has a much nicer design for kbd tags: It works much better for embedding it in other text (e.g. an explanation) as it contains a sans-serif font and a more subtle border. The style current …

The services tag wiki excerpt states: Services are processes running regardless of users logging in. They provide access and features to different programs or processes The terminology is clea …

Discussion: What do we, as a community, consider right and wrong, good and bad behavior, on and off topic, where do we see the need for change, etc. This is about that last category of topics. … IvoFlipse ♦, shortly after a discussion on a few Meta topics regarding, among other things, changes to the FAQ: My problem with Meta is that there's no way to end or resolve a discussion. …

What reasonable ways are there to get the Peer Pressure badge on SU? Deleted own post with score of -3 or lower. I'm serious here: I don't particularly want to provide false information, write …

A few times already I've seen users in chat complain about the willingness of reviewers to approve very minor edits whose usefulness is questionable. Sometimes the edits were even counterproductive, l …

Nixphoe asked a while ago: I know this isn't ethical, but is there anything we can do about other sites copying from SU? Any information about the AsyncMapLite Trojan? http://answerleaks.com/any-info …