53
votes
Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again
Only manufacturer and company tags are problematic, specific products are not.
There are two tags, intel-cpu and intel-graphics, that are okay for all CPU and graphics card products made by Intel ...
Community wiki
16
votes
Accepted
Girl, you're a mess: [images] needs a makeover
I would vote for burninate images and replace it for their peers, image-editing, disk-image, etc. in a way that images doesn't exist, since it's a term that loosely apply to many things. But to ...
15
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Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again
I thought I might give an overview of what was done with logitech, as the list in the question doesn't do it any favours, and I hope it serves as an example of what we can do and get some feedback as ...
15
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Could we finally get rid of [software-rec]?
I feel like I must point out something here, and let me take How to obtain the result of a chemical reaction given two components? as an example.
Just because someone is asking for a tool to solve a ...
14
votes
Is [numbering] tag useful or too vague?
I see no way that this tag is even remotely useful. I'm amazed that it's amassed over 100 questions.
We should burninate it.
9
votes
Could we finally get rid of [software-rec]?
It should be destroyed.
While this is going on, the tag wiki should not only say DO NOT USE, which many wikis of burning tags do, but it should also say Go to the Software Recommendations site.
I ...
5
votes
Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again
While going through the google questions I came across one with a konica.
Konica are a manufacturer of printers, scanners, etc. (I think they have a heavy industry division as well).
There are only ...
4
votes
Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again
Even after we destroy tags, they can be recreated. I just re-torched asus; it had accumulated four questions in a couple weeks. You can see a list of newly invented tags on the "new" tab of the tags ...
3
votes
Accepted
Burn [version-number], [updates] and related tags
Agree.
Blacklisting version-number, updates, software-update, auto-updates, and automatic-updates and then
Manual cleanup of all of them into osx-software-update, windows-update and google-update ...
3
votes
How should command line related questions be tagged?
Okay, here's the master plan:
cmd.exe will be merged and synonymized → windows-command-prompt.
We will start a tag-cleanup-request for terminal, to have it retagged to terminal.app where appropriate. ...
2
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Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again
I posted a solution to mikrotik here, which has received two upvotes and no downvotes. I started retagging, and then someone pointed out that being under 2k rep, my retagging uses 4x the effort of ...
Community wiki
2
votes
Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again
It is a fact that some companies have similar issues across many of their products from same category. Some people who happen to have some connection to said company's support service might be ...
Community wiki
1
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Could we finally get rid of [software-rec]?
Lock all questions
Warn in the tag to not use it, and to use the software recs instead
Migrate the good ones to software recs
Close the bad ones (for historical significance, but offtopic)
???
Profit
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