Tags
A tag is a keyword or label that categorizes your question with other, similar questions. Using the right tags makes it easier for others to find and answer your question.
This tags is for general questions about users and user accounts.
for questions specific to upvotes, the community's way of telling peers that their content was clear and helpful. Upvotes on the meta sites may have different meanings.
Anything related to posts of low quality, such as flagging posts for "very low quality", or the low quality posts review task.
For general questions about the Winter Bash (or holiday hats) celebration at the end of the year. Winter Bash is sunsetting in 2023.
Use for the drop-down global inbox and its functionality; for the notifications themselves, include the [notifications] tag.
For questions about the public lists of changes made to posts by a site's users. They are available for questions and answers by clicking the "edited X min ago" link, and on tag wikis as "history" and…
For discussion about the explicitly commercial advertising that appears on this site (if any), as well as the Community Promotion Ads which are voted on by users of each site.
Questions about sizes and other quantities of Stack Exchange sites, e.g. number of questions, GB/day transferred, etc.
Hot Network Questions in the right-hand sidebar, the “hot” tab on each site, and on stackexchange.com.
For questions about any of the emails sent from Stack Exchange sites to their users.
Moderation tools (/tools on a site) are available to users with the required reputation (10,000 on sites with full requirements).
about the quarterly creative commons data dumps of all public data in the Stack Exchange network Q&A sites.
For questions about adapting Stack Exchange to the needs of users from a specific cultural, linguistic or geographical background.
Unanswered questions are questions which have no upvoted or accepted answers. Use this tag for those types of questions, or the unanswered questions tab which lists questions that meet the same criter…
For questions about the standard editor for Stack Exchange posts, which supports a live preview of Markdown syntax.
for issues of what is allowable or desirable in question titles. For questions about window/tab titles of Stack Exchange pages, use the [window-title] tag instead.
for questions about the now-obsolete bookmark question feature (once called "favorite" questions), replaced by the Saves feature in 2022. For questions about watched tags (once called "fav…
For questions on Meta Stack Exchange about the tag watching feature (formerly known as favorite tags), which allows a user to select a set of tags on a Stack Exchange site that will be highlighted in …
For questions about the syntax highlighting performed inside code blocks on Stack Exchange sites.
For questions about the Stack Exchange API. Consider checking the API documentation and the Stack Apps site before posting your question here, it might have been asked before already.
when examining what is on-topic or off-topic, and why.
for questions about the Stack Overflow blog, the place for official company communications as well as essays, opinions, and advice on the act of computer programming.
A post ban means that a user is blocked from asking new questions, or posting new answers.
For questions related to the sort orderings of questions, answers, and other lists on SE sites.
User accounts can be temporarily banned ("suspended") by ♦ moderators for violation of the site rules. Use this tag for any questions related to user suspensions. Do not use this tag to appeal a suspe…
A request to add one tag as the synonym of another tag. Please be specific about which tag should be a synonym of which. Bidirectional synonyms and cycles are implicitly disallowed, so suggest wisely.
For questions about user accounts that have been deleted ("user was removed" in your reputation history) or the process of that deletion.
For questions regarding display names and what is allowed in them.
For questions about the user named Community present on Stack Exchange sites.
for questions about Stack Exchange RSS feeds (existing or proposed) and the bot in chat that posts messages when preselected RSS feeds are updated
Questions relating to the suggestion or request for one or more new badges
For questions about or problems with a user's network profile.
For questions about fostering a sense of community amongst users of Stack Exchange sites
Flags that have been declined by a community moderator or other trusted members of the community.
Use with [meta] to request that a tag here on Meta Stack Exchange be removed. Use in case of uncertainty when requesting discussion, or when the popularity of the tag makes manual retagging prohibitiv…
regarding flagging comments as rude or offensive, no longer needed, or in need of moderator intervention. Also, for questions regarding the number of flags of a certain type required for automaticall…