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Single use tags are not deleted after six months if they were recreated via a rollback

The question Understanding risks of logging into Stack Exchange sites from a shared computer or network has two tags which have only been used once and have no tag excerpt or wiki: shared-devices and ...
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Wildcard tag search gives only first 3 matching tags to anonymous users [duplicate]

When I search [*dnd*] on RPG.SE I get nowhere near the correct amount of tags: Now, I lack an RPG.SE account. When a logged-in user attempted the same search, they said they got: [dnd-5e] or [dnd-3....
14 votes
1 answer
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Diff shows tag being added and removed in the same revision

On this question's revisions (but I remember seeing it in other cases) the diff shows the same tag being both added and removed.
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1 answer
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Incorrect Tag Scores in Profile Activity Summary [duplicate]

Issue: My profile summary on SO Meta shows that I have one answer and all of that answer's current tags show in the Tag section, however the points of the answer do not align with the points of (all) ...
14 votes
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Trailing hyphens are ignored in tag suggestions

Trailing hyphens are ignored in tag suggestions. Example from https://travel.stackexchange.com, tested in Chrome for Android: Typing la- should have brought up la-paz instead of the five suggestions ...
11 votes
1 answer
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How did I just receive a tag badge if there were no recent upvotes on that tag and no edits to add that tag to prior answers?

Yesterday (14 October) in Music: Practice and Theory I received the bronze modulation tag badge. Yet a look at my reputation shows that I haven't received any upvotes on answers for modulation-tagged ...
4 votes
1 answer
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Incorrect number of questions shown on tag mouseover

I recently answered this question. I also edited the question's tags from exact-duplicates to duplicate-questions as the former is now synonymized to the latter. However, when mousing over the latter ...
6 votes
1 answer
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Answered vs Unanswered results inconsistent when searching for tags

When I search for a set of tags (e.g. jsonschema and .net), answered and unanswered treat the query differently. Answered seems to return questions that have BOTH tags. Unanswered seems to return ...
4 votes
1 answer
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Is there a bug in the implementation of the Research Assistant badge?

I was doing several tag wiki edits (both true tag wikis and excerpts) in [linguistics.se]. I saw the counter "Your badge progress" on the right sidebar increasing: Your Badge Progress Research ...
42 votes
1 answer
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"Javascript" tag showing up as "javas" on main page

This is one of the weirdest bugs I've ever seen, I think. One of the tags on this question is "javascript" but on the SO homepage, it shows up as "javas." If you click on it, that even takes you to ...
4 votes
2 answers
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Possible bug in tag-based search when searching in "Unanswered" section

Searching via the search box I was looking for unanswered questions in the "Unanswered" section and searched using this query [javascript] [jquery]. This tag search gave results from the "Questions" ...
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1 answer
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Search for questions with tagA, but not tagB? [duplicate]

I'm asking because of these comments.. Basically wondering if there's a way to find all php5 questions without the php tag. If you search for [php5] -[php] it goes to.. http://stackoverflow.com/...
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Search for tags only redirect from search page

After performing a search on the advanced search page with only tags in the search box I get redirected to tagged questions page: The search-string on the top of the page in this case gets unfolded: ...
2 votes
0 answers
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Search is not taking multiple tags if the user is not logged in [duplicate]

If a user in not logged into Stack Overflow, search removes the tag after space. Steps to reproduce: Go to incognito/private mode Hit this URL for instance: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...
8 votes
1 answer
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Tag score updated in one tag, but not others for same answer?

On Meta Stack Overflow, I have a recent answer scoring 11 for feature-requestdocumentationreview-audits. The funny thing is that my tag score for documentation has updated to 11, but feature-request ...
4 votes
1 answer
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Filter returns questions which do not match any of the wildcard expressions

This tag filter selects questions which match the following wildcard tag pattern: *mail* OR rfc* OR *smtp* The filter is returning questions tagged php, which does not match any of the wildcard ...
16 votes
1 answer
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Tags are not showing up on the right side of the screen

This is on Stack Overflow. On Meta I'm able to see what the tags are on the right side of the screen. In fact, I think yesterday or some point earlier today I saw tags on the right side of the screen (...
8 votes
1 answer
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Why does the system pretend there's no wiki for a tag when only the excerpt is missing?

I stumbled upon the sortedmap tag on Stack Overflow today and wanted to add a source, probably because I'm anal like that. If you look at the tag, it says: There is no tag wiki for this tag … yet! ...
4 votes
2 answers
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First two tags only visible in tagged questions page for few tags in stackapps

There is a strange issue with the tampermonkey, firefox tags in stackapps. For sample: When filtering the [tampermonkey] in search box the questions are listed with only the first 2 tags, even ...
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1 answer
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Tag search results different from main window and truncated when adding tag to a question

When searching for a tag while writing/editing a question, the results are: different in ordering compared to searching it in the in-app site's "Tags" page (as opposed to "Questions"/"Users"). less ...
2 votes
1 answer
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Issue with questions asked this year in Tags page

In the Tags page of Stack Apps on each tag, I can see the numbers times it was asked in the recent period. The detail having an issue. Since it is the first month of the year, so the month's count ...
15 votes
1 answer
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Why are diacritics not supported in tags consistently?

Recently, it came up that there does not seem to be a way to support é in the tagging syntax. This seemed like a bizarre unicode bug at first (something which would be especially bizarre from a ...
2 votes
1 answer
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Why does the list of Ignored Tags disappear in the sidebar after page refresh? [duplicate]

I was setting up some ignored tags today, and I noticed that after adding an ignored tag through the sidebar UI, the Ignored Tags section disappears after you refresh the page, and won't show up again ...
4 votes
1 answer
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Searching for or (with or without pseudo-tag) with other search criteria does not work in search box

I've been looking for a way to search questions with one tag or another applied to it. However, I must use the search box because I also wish to search for questions that have no answers applied to ...
13 votes
1 answer
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Does retagging the question need peer reviews?

As far as I know if a user has crossed 500 rep, he can retag the questions and it doesn't go through peer review. But when I retagged this question on Stack Overflow, it did go through peer review ...
2 votes
0 answers
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Overflow causes partially visible tag names on /users with long tag names [duplicate]

On the /users page, the top tags responsible for the bulk of your reputation gains are shown underneath your username and reputation for that selected period. In the instance that your tag names are ...
11 votes
1 answer
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Multiple tags search broken when searching as anonymous user?

When I input [asdf][lisp] into the search field on http://stackoverflow.com, without being logged in, only one tag remains. Is it broken?
21 votes
1 answer
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Why isn't the predictor predicting?

Since "Jan 8 at (more or less) 19:57" the predictor or Tag Future Report hasn't been updated. This could screw more than one Recommended/Interesting tabs of Stack Overflow users. How often does this ...
3 votes
1 answer
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Why SO, SU and SF allow to style the tags?

Maybe it is a bug, but on SO, SF, SU and their metas is it possible to style the tags: #[meta-tag:featured] #*[meta-tag:featured]* ##[meta-tag:featured] ###[meta-tag:featured] [meta-tag:featured] **[...
4 votes
1 answer
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Tag ranking shows different tables for logged in user

I'm seeing different tables for the jax-ws tags when I'm logged into SO and when I'm logged out. Logged in: Logged out: As you should be able to see, when I'm logged in, I'm second to last in the ...
9 votes
2 answers
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Adding new tag reflecting to the wrong tag

A few minutes ago I edited "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13761034/insert-bulk-skipped-the-first-column" on Stack Overflow. But when I tried to add the column tag to the question, I got this ...
4 votes
1 answer
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Where did the yellow background of interesting tags go?

Let's have a look at a screenshot I just made: Until now, when viewing a page containing questions marked with an ‘interesting tag’, all questions got a nice, soothing yellow background to let me ...
1 vote
2 answers
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Tag box on top of Questions page doesn't show markdown backticks

If you make a Tag Wiki entry, you can use the markdown backticks to show something is a tag (as is done quite often on these sites) and it shows it on the Tag info page. If you then go to the Tag ...
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1 answer
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Is there a limit for max number of tags viewed at once?

I have a rather large list of interesting tags, and when i try to use a Greasemonkey extension (forget what it is) to view all of my interesting tags at once, i get an HTTP 400 request error invalid. ...
1 vote
1 answer
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Searching for questions tagged "c#*[~]" only returns questions tagged "c#" not "c#" or "c#2.0" etc

The following search: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%23~ returns "43,619 questions tagged c#" Note the single tag in the results despite the wildcard in the search term. However, the ...
4 votes
2 answers
239 views

Bug in tag editor suggestions

Hello, I use Opera 9.64 on Linux. When I edit tags (both retagging a question and tagging a brand new question (like this one)) the tag suggestion dropdown updates messes with focus of the text ...
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2 answers
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Tags page: "Type to find tags..." text box

The tags page has a text box Type to find tags. When I start typing, I get a list of available tags. I've noticed a problem with certain tag names. Take googleearth (5 questions tagged) vs google-...
2 votes
1 answer
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Too many tags in the search query stop the live activity-notification bar

I've been working for a long time with an occasionally updated search string to keep track of the tags I want to follow. This has already caused problems with the searchbox but you can work around ...
0 votes
2 answers
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merging a tag into a synonym'd tag creates that tag again?

On this post at Math.SE, one sees that it is tagged both with (multivariable-calculus) and (vector-calculus). If one clicks on the (vector-calculus) tag, one gets redirected, correctly, to the page ...
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Undeleting a question can also undelete blacklisted tags [duplicate]

The question and revision history. When the question was deleted, we hadn't yet blacklisted homework. Once the question was undeleted, the system recreated it. It probably shouldn't do that. ...
14 votes
1 answer
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Diamond moderator rollbacks can resurrect blacklisted tags

Example revisions. A diamond moderator rolled back a question to a state where it had homework. This effectively recreated the tag, despite it being blacklisted. This should not happen, and is not ...
4 votes
1 answer
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Search results showing questions without the searched for tag in results

Recently, I was surfing on stackoverflow.com & I have found one bug in Question filter. I was looking under the java tag and yet I saw questions which were not tagged java The incorrectly shown ...
0 votes
1 answer
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How to find tagged questions?

Earlier it was possible to see the list of tagged questions at the tag's page, for example https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/couchdb Now all of these questions shows no questions: Is there ...
4 votes
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Limit tag autocompleting in search

It is great that we have the auto-completion of tags in the search box. When I enter i.e. [*sql*] then all the SQL tags get included in my search automatically and I have a live refresh on them in ...
8 votes
1 answer
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Tags on unanswered page do not correspond to actual questions shown

When I tried to show unanswered JavaScript questions not related to jQuery on SO, it showed on the right that it was showing questions tagged with "javascript not jquery" (example). However, both the ...
5 votes
1 answer
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It seems I can remove my locked downvote of a question after retagging?

Today I downvoted one question and later I changed my mind but it was too late. Then I realized that there was one tag missing (array), so I retagged with my privileges and it was possible to remove ...
-1 votes
1 answer
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missing post on stackoverflow .htaccess tag

I just asked a question on SO and then a second later when I returned to the main page I couldn't find it. I have repeatedly refreshed and searched the whole page using the search function of my ...
-1 votes
1 answer
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Number of questions tagged not adding up right

When browsing questions in StackOverflow with a particular tag, and viewing on the Newest tab, on the top-right, there's the total number of questions with that tag. Refer to such a link: https://...
4 votes
0 answers
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Why do I need to enter the captcha n times to figure out that my n tags are not created yet?

When asking a question on Stack Overflow, I need to enter the captcha before it tells me a tag is not created yet. But it tells me only one tag is not created yet, so I need to enter the captcha again ...
3 votes
2 answers
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Learn tag shows "zero questions tagged"

Today I searched learn tag from the tag option in SO. I got this result: It shows learnX 10 and "8 asked this month, 8 asked this year." When I click on the tag, or on the hyperlink "8 asked this ...