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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“Perhaps you'd like to select a different tab?” - shouldn't that be 'tag' instead of 'tab'?
I just removed a tag on Linguistics.SE from all questions and then reloaded the tagged questions page. It was empty, as expected, but the suggestion is to select a different tab. It think it should ...
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The existence of these tags reduce my [efficiency] and [productivity]
The efficiency and productivity tags have no tag wiki, only 5 resp. 8 questions, and (especially the first one) are not used in a consistent way. I can see some point in focusing productivity on tips &...
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Expose moderator-only and required tags in SEDE
The API has two methods to get a list of required tags (the gray ones) and moderator-only tags (the red ones):
required tags
moderator only tags
That means there must be an enumeration (or two ...
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Why is the page design for search results different than questions/tagged results?
For example, check out stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python
as compared to stackoverflow.com/search
Personally, I find the /search version much less visually pleasing. (I am curious if others ...
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Is it appropriate to link in a tag wiki to tag-specific discussion forums?
I am quite active on the [huggingface-transformers] tag on Stack Overflow, and quite a lot of questions are relatively implementation-specific (and thus frequently remain unanswered due to their sheer ...
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Burninate the “inappropriate-advertisements” tag
Because we now have the Report this ad feature, I'm requesting that this tag be removed. (That post is not yet marked status-completed, but this comment says it was released network-wide nearly a ...
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Can the editor for editing tag descriptions get updated to match the normal questions/answers editor?
The text editor that is shown when editing tag descriptions still uses the previous behaviour for inserting links and images. Also, the placeholder text for links is still http:// instead of https:// ...
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What's a disallowed tag called now?
Clearly there's a lot of work to do to fix it historically (and I will be quite miffed at people getting overenthusiastic about this) - but previously we had tag blacklists and tag blacklist requests.
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Completely block users without enough rep to create tags from using tags with zero uses
Today, we just had two cases on this site where a tag had been removed from all questions, but was used by a new user in the meantime while it hadn't been removed from the system yet.
The tag confused-...
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Find questions where any of the tags are in the title or body?
I would like to find posts where any of the tags are present in the title or body of the question, e.g. Python and C# are the tags and title is Fix my Python Problem?
SELECT TOP 10
Posts.Id,
Posts....
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How can I list posts which have a particular tag, but didn't have it when originally asked?
I would like to gather some hard data on the use / misuse / non-use of some particular tags. I need a Data.SE query, customisable by tag, which can provide me with a list of all posts which:
have had ...
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Let's not engage in [social-manipulation]
I just encountered the tag social-manipulation (currently three questions, no tag wiki). The tag is unclear and seems to portend a rant about what the poster sees as social issues on the site or ...
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Top users list of answerers that includes post count
I wanted a query like this that ranks by answer vote count for a given tag but that also includes a column with the number of answers.
Essentially a replica of the topusers page list for all-time ...
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Confused about the use of [confused-users]
The confused-users tag has eleven questions and no tag wiki or excerpt. Since most support questions are asked by slightly, moderately or completely confused users, and otherwise they might be helped ...
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Lots of tags breaks mobile responsive layout [duplicate]
I really hope this is a duplicate.
Here is a screenshot:
When a post has lots of tags on the mobile responsive layout ('full site' in the footer), they don't wrap round and you end up with ...
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Special tags not recognized by tag suggestion box if they contain diacritics or non-Latin characters
When asking a question on Stack Overflow Meta en espaƱol or on Stack Overflow Š½Š° ŃŃŃŃŠŗŠ¾Š¼ Meta, the tag suggestion box doesn't seem to recognize required tags with diacritics or non-Latin characters; ...
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Pirate's eye (Feature request to disable watched/ignored-tags with a single click)
The Pirate's eye
The current design of all stack-exchange sites allow the users to Watch and Ignore tags. The purpose of this feature has been described in the following post:
What do āwatched tagsā ...
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Scroll to the sides in mobile when question has many tags [duplicate]
I've reproduced this behaviour in different communities, so it's very likely to be a general problem. I'm using Google Chrome in both Android and Windows 10.
When the question has a big list of tags, ...
asked Oct 1 at 13:38
Tiago Martins Peres ę大ä»
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Improving syntax highlighting language auto-detection
highlight.js's current auto-detection is arguably poor, due in large part to the large number of available languages it has to pick from when not given a language hint.
I suggest that when the ...
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During a search some posts show their tags, some others don't
When I'm doing a search, some entries show their tags, and some others don't even if when you go into their details the poster have put some on them.
Where do you declare bugs about Stack Overflow / ...
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The div containing tags for a question doesn't reflow, causing layout issues for questions with long/many tags
This appears to be a css bug which (I think) has recently been introduced. It's most visible when viewing questions on Stack Exchange sites using mobile devices (the full site with responsiveness, not ...
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Why do we have [deleted-questions] and [deleted-answers] tags when we have [deleted-posts]?
The tag info about deleted-posts is:
For questions about questions or answers that are deleted.
If this tag is for questions about both deleted answers and deleted questions, then why do we have ...
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List a deleted tag synonym creator's ID number instead of “anon” [duplicate]
Over at the Meta SE tag synonyms page, I saw the synonym "tag-merge --> retag-request":
which was created by a deleted user - if their account wasn't deleted, it would have provided a ...
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How can I browse through tags that contain the character “+”?
I noticed that Stack Overflow en espaƱol has a tag named [php+codeigniter+mysql+jquery]:
You can browse in https://es.stackoverflow.com/tags.
However, if I click on the tag it sends me to https://es....
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Year Level/School Level Tags [duplicate]
Year Level/School Level Tags
Context:
So this question mainly applies to the more academically related sites - the ones that come immediately to mind are Math SE, English SE, Physics SE, etc. - ...
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Wrong number associated with specific Tag
When I check the number of my tags, can see
I'm particularly interested in the bug count. It has 0 bug x5.
When I check all my posts related with the tag bug,
There's 6 results with a total of more ...
asked Sep 2 at 19:35
Tiago Martins Peres ę大ä»
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Tag Autocompletion Not Working [duplicate]
I'm currently trying to post on serverfault. When I try to search for a tag, the dropdown is empty. I have verified in Chrome debug tools that the call is being made and results are being returned as ...
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Tag suggestions are empty
It apears to have been resolved by now. The issue still appears on SO The issue regressed here on MSE as well
I recently got access to the 10K-tools, and the inline tag editor, which I observed to ...
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Make [glossary] a synonym of [terminology]
This was already discussed on What should we do with [glossary]?. There is only one answer which is proposing this, it has +15 / -0.
glossary has 8 questions, no tag excerpt no tag wiki
terminology ...
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What should we do with [glossary]?
glossary has eight questions (the last week I added it to three questions), no tag excerpt, and no wiki. The most prominent question having this tag is
Stack Exchange Glossary - Dictionary of Commonly-...
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Change “View tag” to “View tag info” in tag tooltip
In the tooltip of any tag below the question you can see a link "View tag" in the end of text that refers to the list of questions that have that tag. In the same time you can just click on ...
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Should we have FAQ style questions for tag related terms coined by the community that are commonly used across SE sites?
I have being participating and reading discussions about tags. On some of these discussions the OP included a tag term that looks easy to understand like "hyphenated tag" (a tag having an ...
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Hide questions with ignored tags in Favorite Tags filter
My favourite page on Stack Exchange is /filters, which by default shows the "Favorite Tags" built-in filter. This filter is great, because it includes all favourite/"watched" tags ...
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Deleted users who created a synonym are listed as “anon” in the tag synonyms list
While browsing the list of tag synonyms on Mathematics Meta I came across the synonym [vote-to-close] -> [closing] in which the creator is listed as "anon" ā the username is not ...
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How are the top tags on the profile page selected?
The profile page has a section called "Top tags". Several tags are displayed there. (I have only seen six, I am not sure whether it is always the same number.)
Question: How are the tags ...
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Can the [untagged] tag be blocked on the newer sites too?
As per the details in What is a blocked tag?, the tag untagged is supposed to be blocked throughout the network. However, apparently the tag needs to be added to the block list for each new site ...
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What would happen if there were a cycle of tag synoynms?
Asking mostly out of curiosity:
Question: What would happen if there were a cycle of tag synoynms?
As in, there are tag synonyms such as a 2-cycle:
a -> b
b -> a
or a 3-cycle:
a -> b
b -&...
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Provide an easy way (or link) to browse to the tags page from the Ask a Question page
I joined a new site, and realized there's no easy way to "browse" the tags page from the Ask a Question page. The usual tag select box has its useful autocomplete, but it requires me to ...
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Discovering the order of [product-discovery]
This is the front page of Meta Stack Exchange as I'm writing this post:
Even though status-review is used less often than the other three tags on that question, it's still listed before it. ...
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Publish question button is disabled [duplicate]
When trying to publish questions on Stack Exchange sites I am seeing the follow behavior after entering the question tags and pressing Enter.
The Post Question button is disabled and not clickable. If ...
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Can we sort tags by the average reputation of the user who added the tag?
High-reputation users tend to be more familiar with the site, and are more likely to add useful tags. Low-rep users often add the first tags they think of when writing a question. Thus...
Question: ...
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This tag [belongs-on] another site
The tag belongs-on (currently 6 questions, all of them asked in 2011 or earlier) seems to be a very old way to refer to what are now known as migration close reasons.
belongs-on should be a synonym of ...
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What does Watching Tags do? [duplicate]
Under the tag description are two buttons,
watch/unwatch and ignore/unignore. What are those buttons supposed to do? I didn't see any effects from using them.
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New [mod-agreement-policy] tag has an incorrect description
Today a new moderator only tag was introduced: mod-agreement-policy.
Its tag description states:
Use this tag to indicate posts that are official Stack Exchange policy that moderators are expected to ...
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Is there a way to find out the number of tag-page views?
When curating tags, I sometimes think to myself questions like:
Are people clicking on this tag to look at the corresponding collection of questions?
Hence...
Question: Is there a way to find out ...
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Automatic edits prevent users from edit when retagging only [duplicate]
Usually it is possible to add a missing tag to a question without editing the question.
However, while editing some questions, the editor makes invisible changes automatically, as for example in ...
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Blue tag badge message can get misaligned on small screens/windows
Here it says that the post was reopened by a bunch of community members, including this one. And right next to that user's username is the feature-request tag with a yellow circle in it.
Hovering over ...
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Add question classification on top of question tagging [duplicate]
Is it possible to add a question classification option? For example users who will be answering it may have preference for fixing issues (problem solving) vs how to build something (creativity). An ...
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Are these synonyms: [code], [code-block], [code-formatting]?
I came across a question today that was tagged with code which seemed an odd tag to have here on Meta.
Turned out that tag has 127 question and its description says:
For questions or problems ...
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Tag popup doesn't show on some tags
I'm having a strange issue with the [google-analytics] tag on Web Applications Stack Exchange. When I'm using the latest Firefox on macOS 10.15.5, even with the cache cleared and all userscripts ...
