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10 questions linked to/from Tag hierarchy to browse through tags
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A proposal for tag hierarchy on Stack Exchange sites
Executive summary
Introduction of sparse hierarchy (partial inheritance relation) into the set of tags on Stack Exchange sites, in order to allow more efficient question organization/filtering/...
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Tags tree-like relation (esp. for ignoring) [duplicate]
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Tag hierarchy to browse through tags
I would be very happy to see tags tree-like relation. For example if I'm not interested in SQL discussions on StackOverflow, I can add SQL ...
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Implicit tagging hierarchy
I am aware of similar requests but I ask this regarding SE-2.0 sites, as the example I will take gaming:
Both answers on the question Should questions always be tagged with either a console/platform ...
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We need meta tags to be able to organize and search tags easily
We need meta tags to more easily describe our preferences.
Current mechanism (regular expressions) is not sufficient because related tags (semantic issue) don't have to have related names (syntax ...
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Is there a notion of "primary tags"?
Are some tags more important than others? Is there something like a "primary tag" that identifies the largest-scope problem domain which always appears first?
For example, in this question, the ...
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Can we have sponsor tags auto-generated now?
Now that we have sponsored tags, the system surely knows that those tags have the same sponsor, so can we have auto-generated sponsor tags? That way I can just follow everything sponsored by Adobe or ...
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What was the reason for not using nested tags?
Note: this is a general interest question, rather than a feature request.
I noticed that nested tags have been discussed before, and declined. However, there was no reason given - just this from Jeff ...
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A simplified proposal for tag parents for versioning
There have been other proposals for this, but please allow me to present this in a new, simplified approach.
Premise
We can mainly distinguish 4 types of tags on SO:
[concept] (such as [memory-...
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Automatically add category tag(s) to questions, or at least suggest them
It seems almost all requests to add tag category/hierarchy/organization/etc have been shot down.
I'm suggesting a different variety: automatically add the appropriate "category" tag(s) when the ...
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The ability to "activate" some tags and search
Tags are definitely making for search, but they are not utilized: one can only click on one tag, or depends on all the set of tags one selected: which generates too many results.
A tag group should ...
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