Questions tagged [sponsored-tags]
For questions about tags which are sponsored (have an icon on them) and how tags can become sponsored.
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Sponsored tag icons are causing unnecessary new lines [migrated]
Example on a Google Pixel 6 phone with Chrome:
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"Doris knows HTML5" - who is she?
I just noticed that the html5 tag has a new icon:
I searched on Stack Overflow and Google for her. Apparently, she once showed up in an advert. Other than that, I know nothing about her. Who is Doris,...
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What do icons on the tags mean?
What does an icon on the tag mean, for example the "rg" before the sql-server tag as pictured below?
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User option to disable sponsored tags in the tag list
If you go to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flash you will see an adobe logo fest.
The tags list could end up looking like a walk through Tokyo. – random 13 mins ago
Could we have an ...
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Is there a way to see all "Sponsored Tags"?
Is there a way to see all sponsored tags?
Like the ones sponsored by adobe or facebook?
Short of scanning all the tags page, of course.
BTW, I find this way of advertising pretty much aesthetic.
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Sponsored tags no longer show appropriate icon
Sponsored tags no longer show appropriate icon next to tag name.
For instance, Android tag had green Android logo, that is no longer there:
While it is always possible that some tag is no longer ...
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How can a site get sponsored tags?
There has been quite a bit of chatter recently on Stack Exchange's priorities with respect to the sites, specifically on how Stack Overflow and technical sites are seen as the primary revenue streams.
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Testing == telerik? [duplicate]
I am seeing "Telerik" for testing. This is right. You should not doing for money.
Does it mean that testing = Telerik?
If you are getting money then You cant do like this ..
These are my thoughts:
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Tags and logos in Stack Overflow [duplicate]
I noticed that Adobe-related, .NET-related and Android-related products tag names have a nice and neat logo attached. I like it because it makes visual filtering easier (even though the "interesting ...
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Bring Back the 200 rep level to not see Sponsored Header Ads
If I have 200 rep, shouldn't I not see the 'Sponsored Tag' Header Ad?
I don't mind the sponsored tags, but I hate losing screen space to the Header Ad.
Please exclude those users from seeing the '...
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Is the "Sponsored links for this tag" ad block visible for everyone?
With regards to the ad block that is shown when you use a sponsored tag in search, or clicking on it from the Tags page, is this visible for everyone or is it hidden for users with rep > X?
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Adobe-sponsored tags [closed]
Whoa! Very cool. A welcome and smart way to bring users and company together in a way that benefits everyone involved - exactly the kind of advertising we need more of.
Is this something that'll be ...
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Could SO sponsor the FAQ tag on Meta?
If you go to the faq tag here in Meta, you are greeted with the complete list of the sofaq overhaul project.
It occurred to me that the team could make the faq tag a sponsored one here on Meta, so it ...
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ASP.NET sponsorship [closed]
I'm not fussed if this gets closed or whatever, but seeing the DevExpress logo on the ASP.NET tag just makes me angry! I know they paid or chose and it's the same with all tags...but asp.net IS a ...
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Blank space in Kendo UI [duplicate]
When clicking on the Kendo UI tag, it just shows a big blank div:
Is this a bug?
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Is sponsor ad expired for excel tag? If yes then remove the free space
It's look like sponsorship on tag excel is expired. So the advertisement is removed. But the space is not removed.
Before few days (or may be till 31st Dec. 2012) the advertisement was like this:
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If a company finds their tag sponsored by a competitor do they have recourse?
There are a number of questions on Meta about whether it is OK to sponsor a competing product and the answer seems to be that this is acceptable. What happens if the owner of a trademarked name finds ...
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Suggestion: Do not allow Sponsorship of general tags or tags related to products not owned [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should tags that represent concepts be sponsorable?
The one that most irks me is Red Gate sponsoring performance. It is clearly a general tag, intended to be used for any ...
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New Icon for C# / .NET Tags [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What do icons on the tags mean?
Why is there a Dev Express logo on C# / .NET now? Are they sponsoring or something, I'm not really sure I like this change as it's mis-branding....
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Tag icon does not appear
I'm sure some users have noticed this before, but it seems that nobody complained about it.
When adding a tag on my Favorite Tags tab, the icon of the recently added tag isn't being displayed ...
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Open Source Communities should get "Sponsored" Tags
Currently "sponsored" tags are only available for tags in which a sponsor has ponied up cash for.
Since most open source communities cannot afford or justify the expense of purchasing a "sponsored" ...
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Provide free tag icons for non-profit projects [duplicate]
It is possible to add icons to tags as part of promotions. However, several tags exist that would benefit of an icon but without any likely sponsor (E.g. open standards, some programming languages, ...
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Does the logo in the tag info page stay even after the sponsorship ends?
If I buy a tag sponsorship on Stack Overflow, then even after my ads stop running, will my logo on the tags remain? Or do I have to have the ads ongoing, renewing every 30 days?
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How Much is Adobe Paying For The Tag Icon Image? [duplicate]
Seriously, WTF guys?
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What's this about labelled tags? [duplicate]
What's with this Adobe logo? I don't use Adobe Flex, I use Flex, the fast lexer, and I've had to add a million tags to my ignored list to try (unsuccessfully) to filter out the questions about this ...
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How much does it cost to sponsor a tag? [closed]
With almost 30,000 tags, it would be nice to be able to sponsor very low traffic tags. The low volume tags are actually quite interesting. For example, if you have a business repairing altair ...
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Can an interested sponsor seed new tags?
New tags can only be created on relevant questions by users with sufficient reputation. However, can sponsored tags be created proactively without an existing question by an interested sponsor?
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Sponsored tag images not displaying [closed]
Is it normal that I'm having this display and how can I fix it?
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Who stole the fox?
Take a look here, the firefox tag page:
As far as I know this is Firefox official logo: (original)
I'm pretty sure it used to be that official logo until recently but now it's suddenly changed ...
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Why do some tags have image attachments? [duplicate]
I see some tags have images and some do not, why is this?
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Layout spacing issue on newest questions for sponsored tags
I noticed a layout issue when clicking on sponsored tags. When clicking on tag android I got a layout like this with a large section of white-space:
This same thing happened for the tag facebook.
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Sponsored links section errors 500 on repeated tag selection
I have observed that when I click my favorite tags, I am seeing 500 error in sponsored links section. Here is the screenshot.
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"chrome" tag automatically converts to "google-chrome" [closed]
I had a question about firefox chrome earlier, and so I added the tag chrome to it When I submitted the question, it had turned chrome into google-chrome with a little google chrome icon beside it. ...
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Synonyms and icons for bug tracking tags
I think the bug-tracking tag should be a
synonym of the issue-tracking tag.
I don't think that either of those tags should use the youtrack tag's icon (unfair competition).
Should the bug-tracker tag ...
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Has a change happened in the policy for sponsoring tags for abstract concepts?
I have just remarked today that:
Redgate still sponsors a few SQL Server tags, but they do not sponsor performance any more.
Telerik (which was rather infamous for sponsoring tags such as testing and ...
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What about Tag images for OpenSource projects?
I know that the ability to put an image on a tag is one way that SO does advertising, but what about open source projects that don't have a commercial sponsor? Would it be possible to allow images to ...
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Add the R logo to the R tag?
Hi,
I've noticed some tags bear a logo. It would be nice to have the R logo on the tag as well. Is this doable / legal?
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Are there too many corporate tag logos on SO?
Is it just me or is SO starting to become a Times Square type of place with advertising everywhere in the form of sponsored tags? I wonder if there is anyone else who feels the chilling effect this ...
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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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Update the outdated sponsored icons for Google Cloud Products
Google recently updated the logos for the cloud products so I think it would be nice to update them here as well.
The outdated icons:
google-app-engine
google-cloud-storage
google-bigquery
google-...
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Sponsored tag icons always delivered using http [duplicate]
Prevent attackers from embedding evil kittens as tag icons! (Well, I faked that one... Really, GitHub doesn't sponsor the tag icon? Sorry for misusing your logo, fitted much too nice here.)
When ...
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Why does NVidia own the GPGPU tag, despite it not being in any way NVidia-specific? [duplicate]
General-Purpose GPU Computing is not a concept dominated purely by NVidia. It is somewhat abstract; there are multiple vendors/organizations/consortia involved in this field; and there's a popular non-...
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Is it possible to edit a tag and include an image?
Some tags have small images against them (such as visual studio 2012). I was wondering is it possible to actually edit other tags and add images (i.e. adding the VS2010 logo to the visual studio 2010 ...
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Should tags that represent concepts be sponsorable? [closed]
I don't see any problem with companies sponsoring tags that are products/proper names, like flex or flash being sponsored by Adobe or android being sponsored by Android. However, I just noticed that ...
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Weird border issue around sponsored links
When filtering by multiple tags, the tag wiki doesn't appear, but the sponsored links are still there. This can cause some weird formatting issues:
It may be hard to see exactly what I mean, so I've ...
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Can you add dart logo to all dart-related tags? [closed]
The logo should apply to all: dartlang, dart, dartium (chrome with integrated) dartvm.
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Webp tag doesn't have a sponsored advert like other 'special' tags [duplicate]
See this picture below, found when clicking on webp.
This tag is a sponsored one. Normally they have an associated 'advert' (served by the ad engine anyway) like android, but this doesn't.
I guess ...
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What about when a sponsored tag doesn't have a universally accepted sponsor for that tag?
Today I noticed the sponsorship for the asp.net-mvc and asp.net-mvc-4 tags, it's for DevExpress.
I'm a user of ASP.NET MVC (all versions up to and including 4) and there's not a natural association ...
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Medium blank gap between navigation and tag description [duplicate]
There is a medium-sized gap between the navigation area and the tag description, for a (or possibly a few) tag(s).
This seems to happens on sponsored tags (e.g. google-chrome-extension), but not ...
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Spam in sponsored links?
I was just on the google-app-engine tag, which has a sponsered links section on the top. For the longest time, these were all documentation and mailing list links from Google. Now, a new one has ...
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