Questions tagged [tags]
For questions about the behavior or usage of tags, which are keywords or labels that categorize and group your question with other, similar questions.
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Tags should be markable as obsolete, and opted out of being suggested for new questions
I don't know what algorithm is being used to come up with tag suggestions, but it probably wouldn't be too hard to add a simple filter that blocks it from suggesting "obsolete" tags.
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There is a problem with the [problem-user] tag
We have the problem-user tag, with excerpt that reads:
This tag should be used in a question about a user who has been causing problems like spamming, unproductive answers, using abusive language and ...
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How can I find the tag wiki for a tag that has been synonymized with another?
The system allows to synonymize tags where the resulting tag does not have a wiki, but the source one had. How in that case I can find the wiki of the source tag without breaking the synonymized pair?
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'Edit tags' loading indicator styling bug [duplicate]
When pressing the 'Edit tags' button, most of the times the loading indicators get some absurd styling:
Other question/GIF
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How can I see the average and median question scores for a given tag on a given SE site?
How can I see the average and median question scores for a given tag on a given SE site? E.g., what is the average and median score for the questions that have the tag bug on Meta.SE (I took this ...
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How to read the "tag merge" log
Site moderators have a tool to merge tags. As a result of such a merge, a popup window with a log appears, e.g. here is a recent merging:
updating post history, 130 rows affected (pipe delimited)
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"Tag edit confirmed" notification seems to use relative or wrong URIs [duplicate]
While being at networkengineering.stackexchange.com I noticed that I had received a "tag edit confirmation" for "UNIX & Linux".
However when clicking on the notification I ...
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Incorrect number of questions in tag on question creation
Number of questions in tag shown when tag is selected on question creation might show incorrect value, if name of the tag is too long.
For example, when attempting to add tag prometheus-alertmanager ...
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How can I get information of a tag with the Stack Exchange API?
The API documentation of usage of /tags/{tags}/info GET does not give us this information:
How can I get this text description?
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Merging and synonymizing tags: how can we handle tag information?
This is the question about tools accessible to site moderators.
We have several tags that we want to synonymize/merge in some cases. Some tags have tag information, but others don't.
What's the ...
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Do we need the [moderation-strike] tag?
I've seen the moderation-strike tag popping up a few times this past month. I'm wondering, do we really need it?
It doesn't seem to have much long-term utility, though I may turn out to be wrong on ...
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Empty area in tags block on user profile page
In my profile there's an empty area in the Tags block:
Each tag on that block occupies 66px in height. The last tag here is bug, and this tag occupies 144px height, so it easily can contain at least ...
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My tags list cuts off, leaving out some relevant tags
I often use My tags to filter questions. Today I noticed that some questions with relevant tags were excluded from the filtered list. The culprit seems to be that the list of tags (which is pretty ...
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The "Edit" button on the Tags page escapes its bounding box when the tag name is too long
On the tags page the "Edit" button is displayed incorrectly when the tag name is too long. (Need edit privileges (2k rep) on the site to see the button.)
(printscreen from StackOverflow на ...
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Wrong z-index for tag popup when the question has an ignored tag
After this was fixed, I tested it a bit, and noticed this behavior:
When there is an ignored tag and the question is grayed out, the tag popup is below/behind the other page contents due to wrong z-...
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Invalid number of questions by tag after synonymizing
It's obviously a caching issue, but it is very weird and long-standing (more than 10 days).
After making the tag synonym on ruSO, I am faced with the interesting behavior related to the number of ...
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Is there an expected duration of the status-review stage? [duplicate]
The tag info page for the status-review tag states:
Indicates that the circumstances behind a bug report are set to be internally reviewed, or that the feature request contains merit to consider but ...
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Meaningless placeholder for tags on new sites
When asking a question on a new private beta, the input field for tags has a rather meaningless placeholder:
e.g. ()
I understand no tags can be recommended, but wouldn't it be better to just omit ...
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How can I determine if this is a bug or feature-request for design tagged question?
Some design issues are based completely on personal opinion. In some other situations, they feel like an edge case, like this one: Add comment link is too close to Flag link
Should this be tagged as ...
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Is there a tag on MSE for the block of links under the post body and above the comments?
Is there a tag that can be used for questions related to the block of links under the post body? (share, edit, close, delete, flag)
If there's not, how can we name it?
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Tag excerpt is missing when searching tags? [duplicate]
The tag excerpt seems to be missing when searching for tags from the Tags page.
I believe it was working previously, while only tag synonyms that don't show the excerpt.
Tried on Chrome 113 in ...
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What tag is used for Stack Exchange rules and their respective enforcement instruments?
Each site has a Tour, a Help Center and meta sites having faq where the site's purpose, workings and features of the Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange system are explained. Also, there is FAQ for ...
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Add option 'exclude these sites' in a filter rule
This feature request is not a duplicate of
Add the ability to exclude sites in global searches. Please, note the URLs in the quotations below are different. That question is asking for the ability to ...
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What is the rep bubble next to my top tag?
In the "Summary" box on my profile on Server Fault, I see a rep bubble with +20 next to my top tag:
What does this number signify?
I tried to search across MSE and MSO but I could not find ...
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Tag excerpts are not shown on the Tags page if the filter text is not empty
Taking Meta Stack Exchange as an example (the same behaviour appears to be exhibited by all Stack Exchange sites), the Tags page for Meta Stack Exchange at https://meta.stackexchange.com/tags shows ...
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Don't let users enter a sixth tag in the first place
Yes, in the fine print it says "Add up to 5 tags".
Then don't let users enter a sixth tag. Currently it is like Cheech & Chong, "Don't take those. I already took them.".
Once ...
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Add confirmation for saving a tag's syntax highlighting change
♦ moderators have the ability to assign to every tag a default language for syntax highlighting (see the FAQ):
When clicking the Save button, all that happens is that the button gets disabled, which ...
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What should we do with the tag [experts]?
TL;DR:
experts has 25 14 questions but hasn't tag wiki. The Frequent tab shows 9 4 questions. All the Top Askers have 1 question each. The Top Answerer is Robert Cartaino with 2 answers and a score of ...
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Duplication by an old post with obsolete tag
There's an old and currently obsolete tag mobile-web (if used for non-chat questions). It so happened that current site behavior (responsive design) works the same as for an old mobile site. Should we ...
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How to watch tags across more than one Stack Exchange site
How do users watch any given tag across multiple Stack Exchange sites?
For example, to watch [bash] or [awk] I watch the tag on Stack Overflow. However, it appears I must re-watch that same tag on, e....
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Stack Overflow Atom tag feed sometimes leaks unrelated questions [duplicate]
We have a Slack integration with https://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/kedro, but from time to time we get questions that are completely unrelated and are not tagged with the kedro tag. For example, a ...
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Can I get notifications on new posts on a tag? [duplicate]
I would like to subscribe to a feature to receive a notification when a person asks a question under the Python tag on Stack Overflow. How can I do it?
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How is a new tag added to many questions?
I created a tag "bri" on Politics SE since there are many questions there regarding BRI (i.e. Belt and Road initiative).
A search found 63 questions mentioning it.
It isn't feasible for me ...
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How do I get the highest posters for a certain tag in a specific country?
I would like to get the user IDs, user names, the number of posts, and the total score for a certain tag for each user in a specific country (sorted in descending order by score).
For example, in the ...
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How can I get the total number of posts for a user that have a certain tag in them?
User abbood (myself) has eight posts (in total) that have the tag cocoapods; six questions and two answers.
I thought that this query should simply get all eight:
SELECT Count(*)
FROM posts p
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If you create a tag, you shouldn't get reputation by adding it to questions
There is a mass edit dump into the Suggested Edit review queue in Music.SE, by me. I'm suggesting several edits adding tritone, a tag that I created, to all tritone-related questions I can find. I don'...
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Could there be a one-page (or more) of alphabetical listing of tags to quickly scan to use on questions?
When seeking tags for a question, often there isn't any such tag, so a person has to erase and start over listing tags, only to be rejected again. If there were a single page listing, a quick scan ...
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Search posts with specific combination of tags
Let’s say I want to obtain a list of all topics that have tags [x] & [y], but not [z].
For example, let’s say a topic has the below tags [x] & [y]. Then I should have this topic in my search ...
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Is there a way to "select your next badge" to track self-created tags?
Clicking the cog icon associated to the "Next tag badge" on my LawSE Activity page brings about a pop-up with the option to "Select your next badge" and lists available tags for me ...
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When should I add a tag onto a question? [duplicate]
I most likely will be downvoted for this question, but I am confused on this matter.
If a question (for example, not in real life) about Harry Potter that mentions Ronald Weasley and has relations to ...
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No space between text and buttons on tag top users page
There's no space between text and buttons on tag top users page:
Related to ruSO, rusSE.
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Allow more than 5 tags if red tags are used [duplicate]
As many of you should know that using a more than 5 tags simultaneously on the single question isn't possible:
Hence once a moderator decides to add a red tag (e.g. any of [status-...]) on the ...
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Inline tag edits are rejected on switch to full edit mode
On 10k reputation you get inline tag edit possibility. But this edits are rejected on switching to full edit mode. E.g.:
Before inline tag edit there are tags: bug comment voting:
In inline tag edit ...
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Is it possible for the RSS feed to erroneously publish questions that don't match the query? [duplicate]
I have a bot transferring results from an RSS feed of Stack Overflow questions with specified tags into Slack.
RSS feed: https://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag?tagnames=manatee.json+or+json-everything&...
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Unused meta tags that still persist
I found that some meta sites have tags that actually have not been used for a long time and are not deleted yet. Looks like these are some sort of "special" potential popular tags for ...
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Can we have a question's tags be displayed at the top in all review queues and tabs?
When reviewing items, I often find myself switching tabs, between e.g. 'Answer' and 'Question', not in the least because to properly assess the quality of i.c. an answer, I need to know what the ...
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How can I quickly/easily edit all posts with a given tag, to change some to use a different tag?
Example:
On Emacs there's long been a tag, auto-complete-mode, which corresponds to a particular (now old) Emacs package autocomplete.el and its command/mode auto-complete-mode.
For several years now, ...
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What's the Data Explorer query to get the latest data that Stack Overflow Trends shows?
Stack Overflow Trends shows the percentage of questions with a certain tag. Here's an example for Java IDEs. On Jan 7, 2023, this link produces this graph:
So VS Code is at 0.8%, and IntelliJ is ...
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RSS feeds returning wrong tags
I have a couple of tag RSS feeds set up across multiple sites, and apparently starting on January 2nd, occasionally the feeds are fetching data for a completely different tag.
For example, on January ...
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