Timeline for I want to burn the [internet]
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| May 21, 2014 at 2:59 | comment | added | Braiam | look @terdon, a tag that needs too much context to be understood is not useful for anyone. I asked a question in MSE for stats about how many users actually type their tags or just use the suggested ones but I empirically I think that 99% of the users just use the tag suggested. Internet tag would be suggested to questions like these where OP only needs to know where to go to download the image and happened to mention "internet". You want those questions tagged with networking? Because that's what is going to happen. | |
| May 20, 2014 at 18:42 | comment | added | Braiam | @terdon you are not convincing me... | |
| May 20, 2014 at 18:31 | comment | added | terdon | @Braiam I don't get any suggested tags for some reason. Anyway, that's irrelevant. That's the beauty of making them synonyms. Tagging as internet will be magically converted to networking. Yay! | |
| May 20, 2014 at 18:20 | comment | added | Braiam | @terdon that's not excuse to have a bad tag around. Newbies just put the tags that the system suggests. They actually don't care which tag their question is asked as long as they ask them. Just try to repeat a question that has the keyword "internet" and the system suggest you all the relevant tags. I used this revision to ask the question. Try it out, you will be surprised ;). | |
| May 20, 2014 at 18:14 | comment | added | terdon | @Braiam That's why merging/making it a synonym of networking seems reasonable. This is a site that gets a lot of newbies who don't know their routers from their elbows. All they know is that they can't connect to the internet. If we take that tag away from them, I shudder to think what they will replace it with. Ubuntu version tags probably. | |
| May 20, 2014 at 18:13 | comment | added | Braiam | @terdon you sure you want the "internet" tag around? I mean, people blames the internet when their browser doesn't work because an extension, or the pages are down, or caching issues. | |
| May 20, 2014 at 14:20 | comment | added | Seth Mod | @terdon Yep, that's how it works. | |
| May 20, 2014 at 13:04 | comment | added | terdon | Perhaps making them synonyms would be better. Novices have no idea what "networking" means but understand they can't connect to the internet. If internet were a synonym of networking they would be automatically directed to the correct tag, right? | |
| May 20, 2014 at 11:39 | comment | added | Oli Mod | I agree there are a few but the vast majority are. It would be easiest to catch the ones that aren't networking (by removing their internet tag) now and then merging. | |
| May 20, 2014 at 11:31 | comment | added | Braiam | There are some that really shouldn't be tagged with networking | |
| May 20, 2014 at 7:44 | history | answered | OliMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
