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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Should questions include "tags" in their titles?
I've seen questions edited to remove the language name from the title. Won't search engines - and folks using search engines - have an easier time finding them if these "tags" are kept as ...
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Tab for questions that are labeled with favorite tags
Why don't we have a Tab that shows only questions for our favorite tags, showing recent first? I keep having to scroll down the page to find the questions I'm interested in.
It'd be like the ...
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A real solution to ambiguous tags
Introduction
Even within a site's relatively focused range of topics (it's unlikely anybody on SO will think sun refers to the solar system's star), some tags are inherently ambiguous.
There are ...
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The homework tag is now officially deprecated
Homework is no longer a tag on Stack Overflow.
Keeping this post for historical reference. --Shog9
The result of a rather lengthy discussion concludes with the homework tag needing to go away on ...
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Can we allow 7.5K users to suggest tag synonyms without a score of 5 in the tag?
Feature Request: Could 7.5K users have the privilege of proposing synonyms without the 5 upvotes per tag requirement? (in other words unrestricted synonym suggestion)
Background: I would like to be ...
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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?
Return to FAQ index
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RSS feed of your favorite tags
It would be nice if we could subscribe to an RSS feed of all the questions that match your 'favorite' tags i.e. an RSS feed of the questions that get highlighted as yellow when viewing the question ...
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What does it mean to "burninate" a tag?
There are requests to "burninate" tags all over the place! What does this really mean; what happens to a burninated tag? How is it different than removing a tag or black-listing a tag? Would it be ...
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Moderators should be able to remove / burninate a tag themselves
We're doing some spring cleaning on Super User, which involves disambiguating tags, merging them, creating synonyms etc.
However, one of the most troublesome things is removing a tag.
Often, it's ...
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Could the tagging system be enhanced to support tag synonyms?
Quite often Transact SQL questions get tagged as t-sql when the convention now is to tag as tsql.
However, no matter how hard you can try to educate users that the 'correct' tag is tsql, you're ...
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Tag scores have not updated; script did not run
The tag scores script has not ran at the scheduled time of 03:00 UTC for a number of days.
Here are some other reports of this:
Is there a problem with tag score calculation?
Tag counts on my profile ...
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Sizes and overlaps of communities on the sites
This might be totally useless, but I wanted to join the league of people who use the Google chart API and the data dump to create pretty pictures.
So I took a look at the relative sizes of the "...
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When to burninate
Upon seeing this question, I took a look at the user tag, and it currently has 1366 unanswered questions, and 4326 total questions. Seeing as that's quite a lot, I thought I'd help with the ...
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New users can't create new tags: show a singular or plural message?
The same error message is shown if a user (without sufficient rep) tries to add one tag or several:
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What are tag synonyms and merged tags? How do they work?
What are tag synonyms?
How can tag synonyms be distinguished from "real" tags?
How are new tag synonyms created?
Who can create tag synonyms?
How can I delete/reverse/undo bad tag synonyms?
What are ...
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Improving Tag Synonyms
Executive Summary
Jon Ericson asked, Does the tag synonym suggestion system work?
The answer, unfortunately, is no.
Tag Synonyms were introduced in August 2010:
It’s been clear for a very long time ...
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How can we get rid of misspelled and unused (or "zombie") tags?
During the re-tagging of questions, tags sometimes become orphaned from existing questions.
Are these zombie tags ever removed from the tags list?
What if a tag is misspelled and needs to be removed?...
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A proposal for tag hierarchy on Stack Exchange sites
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Introduction of sparse hierarchy (partial inheritance relation) into the set of tags on Stack Exchange sites, in order to allow more efficient question organization/filtering/...
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Tag scores are not updated and the issue is getting worse
Tag scores update is supposed to happen at 03:00 UTC every day. Tag scores are updated by a scheduled job that is time consuming and often times out (see for example the answers for Tag info not ...
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Tag-badges exploit [closed]
Like everyone else I've been reading bobince's outbreak about parsing html with regex with great amusement. When I read in the comments that bobince had been awarded two gold badges (html and regex) ...
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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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Visualisation of Stack Overflow Tag relationships [closed]
Inspired by a previous meta question on tag trending, my 'Sunday afternoon' project was to plot the relationship between the most popular tags on Stack Overflow. The result is quite pretty:
You can ...
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Migrate shortlist based on tags?
Would it be a good idea to change the migration destination sites based on the question tags?
The new migrate option allows one to select from a limited number of destination sites. This group of ...
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Kill the Retag option, use just Edit
For users with 500 < Reputation < 2000, there are two options: "retag" and "edit". It's great that the retag button is there, but it clutters up the question view. There is ...
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Allow us to filter Suggested Edits and Review section by tag
I've had the ability to review suggested edits for a while now, however I don't often do so because the list is usually full of questions about languages and technologies I'm not familiar with or not ...
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Please show tags in the list of suggested questions that may already have your answer
Over on Arqade we've had a meta discussion recently regarding the inclusion of game names in question titles due to an issue where the 'Questions that may already have your answer' suggestions when ...
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Should we get rid of all the tag synonyms which differ by only one or more hyphens? [closed]
There are tons of tags out there which have a synonym of the tag itself, just with a dash added into it. Originally this was done to connect those tags so that two different tags for the exact same ...
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When should I create a new tag? How do I request a new tag if I don't have enough rep?
Can someone please create the tag foo on our site? We need to have it because
Foo is a recent/upcoming release / edition / model / episode of a popular, established OS / board game / bike brand /...
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Warning or confirmation on new tag creation
In retrospect of this massive cleanup operation, I would like to ask the community how they feel about a warning or confirmation (or just special highlighting) on new tag creation.
Everybody hates ...
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How to add a new tag on Stack Overflow?
I want to know how to create a new tag on Stack Overflow. Where is the entrance of this function?
Please post a screenshot for me. Thanks a lot.
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Move the remove tag "X" icon inside the tag in interesting/ignored tags
Currently, the list of tags in "ignored tags" and "interesting tags" has a little "remove tag" icon to the right of each tag. However, since this icon is not inside the ...
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We should have a notification system for when users suggest tag synonyms
I have recently suggested tag-synonyms for a couple of tags. There has been no activity on them regarding up-voting or down-voting those suggestions, probably because no one knows I proposed them.
So, ...
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Do not expire single-use tags that have a tag wiki
Single-use tags automatically expire after a few months. This is arguably the right thing when the tag is a misspelling (though I'd prefer some way of reviewing the process — but this post is not ...
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Add the ability to "lock" tags [duplicate]
I don't think it would be a bad idea to allow tag "locking". The trouble is, we have some deprecated tags which we don't want to accept new questions for, but we can't just burninate mindlessly. The ...
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Can we prevent titles with an unnecessary tag in them?
So we have lots of questions that are titled like this:
c++ : Failing the template function lookup
Specifically, questions that have one of their tags in front of their title.
Thankfully, these silly ...
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Titles should be stand-alone summaries of questions *without* depending on tags
Titles should be completely independent of tags. A good title tells an expert whether they want to read the full question all by itself.
I know this has come up multiple times before, before, but in ...
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Email notifications for new questions matching specific tags
Is there a way to configure your Stack Overflow account so that you receive notification emails when posts are made to specific tags?
Or do you simply have to log on to see new posts?
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Give mods/communities better tools for large retagging jobs
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This issue remains unresolved seven years later. Please enable communities to deprecate tags. I suggest that deprecated tags could no longer be added to question posts (but allowed to remain ...
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Implement a Tag Black List
Based on my answer here, I would like to propose the implementation of a tag black list.
The black list should contain a list of tags that should NOT be used on the site and disallow people with ...
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Increase limit on tag length [duplicate]
I recently asked a question on Stack Overflow which was primarily about UICollectionViewController, a frequently used class in UIKit on iOS 7.
I wanted to tag the post with the tag ...
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Filtering questions by multiple tags
I know you can select a tag and then click on unanswered to view the unanswered questions for that tag.
But is there a way to view questions only for a certain set of tags > 1 tag?
Mainly I'd like ...
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Create a tag homepage/FAQ
Create or allow for a community-wiki editable home page per tag. One where we could place essentially the tag-specific FAQ and other tag-specific links.
Imported from uservoice
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Add a review queue for new and for rarely used tags
Bad tags are created frequently, especially on beta sites where the barrier to tag creation is relatively low. There are a few mechanisms already existing that are meant to help remove bad or useless ...
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How to rename a tag?
What do I need to do to rename a tag?
I see some people post a question here and ask for a tag to be renamed. Is there some other way?
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What happened to the ignore option in the mouseover on the tags?
In the old pop-up when you hovered over a tag in the question list, there was a link to add to favorites and a link to ignore the tag. In the new design of this pop-up, there's a star to add to ...
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Tags: Adding tags before title of the question
As of now, the user has to enter a title, question, and then the tags. When the user enters the title and tabs out, we see a list of similar questions. However, I could be asking a question related to ...
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Is there some markup to post tags?
I am wondering because I was editing my profile and I though it would be nice to put the languages I know and stuff like tags.
Is it possible to post a tag? If it's not, do you think it's possible to ...
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How do I correctly tag my questions?
Here are some tips for tagging questions. These guidelines will help you more accurately tag your questions, which in turn will help them get more attention and lead to better answers faster.
For ...
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How do I search for questions with (or without) specific tags?
How do I search for questions with specific tags?
How do I search for questions that have specific tags?
How do I search for questions that contain specific text, as well as specific tags?
Are there ...
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How do I find my rank for a specific tag?
I like watching my progress at the Stack Exchange leagues. But is it possible to find my rank for a specific tag (C# for example)?
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