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10 questions linked to/from System to enable hand-sorted moderator retagging for sizeable disambiguation jobs
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The system for adding a new tag to old questions is broken
Tags are useful for lots of reasons. Accurate and specific tags: much more-so.
When a site does't have a particular tag, it's easy enough to add a new tag to an existing question.
But, applying a new ...
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Give mods/communities better tools for large retagging jobs
Where I'm coming from
I'm a moderator on an SE with 5000+ visitors per day, a lot of drive-by askers but few regular contributors (6 editors with 5+ edits this year), and a substantial tagging mess.
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Give moderators the ability to manage blacklisted tags
The request to Implement a Tag Black List was first raised back in Aug '09, but as one of the mods on English Language & Usage pointed out only a few days ago, even moderators don't have access to ...
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Allow non-bumping minor edits, but review them on /review
Every edit, no matter how minor, bumps a question to the frontpage of an SE site. This behaviour is important to allow the community to review edits, but it also creates significant problems when a ...
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Tool for peer-reviewed no-bump mass retagging
Cleaning up a bad or ambiguous tag is a very annoying and disruptive process. While there are moderator tools for renaming and merging tags, there is no tool that helps splitting a tag or removing a ...
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What did happen with "xpathengines" and "xqueryengines" tags, and why? [closed]
About the bounty: Up today the original question is not fully
answered. I'm asking for the actual
reasons of the merge. I've also deleted my own comments so question and answers can stand one in front ...
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No migration path for year old plus questions except for mods and 20k users
Recently, this question was migrated from Stack Overflow to Programmers SE. What was the point of migrating it?
It was asked in October 2008
It already has 44 answers
These types of migrations are ...
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Should each tag have one, and only one, meaning?
On this question:
Should the [float] tag be banned?
I made what I believed to be a reasonable argument about the float tag, which was that the float tag can always be qualified with css if necessary....
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Etiquette for enormous hand-sorted retagging jobs
We already have general guidelines for when you should just ask a moderator for help in retagging. A system for handling soft retags is already proposed, as well.
The first will not help with large ...
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Front page flood rate control system for editing
Summary
Instead of immediately bumping a question, questions that qualify for special bumping behaviour shall be placed in a queue and sequentially auto-bumped by the system at a rate ...