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Some time ago, we introduced "just in time" tag warnings on Stack Overflow. … If the Ask Ubuntu community feels this might be useful, then we could experiment with tag warnings here. …

Is there a status update somewhere regarding tag warnings as discussed here and the pilot implemented here? …

Following up in the discussion about http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/14237/tag-warnings-on-ask-ubuntu, we have added a tag warning for wireless on Ask Ubuntu! … Specifically, we'd like to be able to track the impact of those tag warnings in terms of: Causing users to not post their question at all Causing users to simply remove the offending tag Here's why …

We have 57 posts tagged warning. Should they be retagged to remove it? warning is not as bad as the banned error tag. error roughly meant "Something happened!" … Or is there is a reason to keep warning after all? Update: As of now, the warning tag has been removed from all the questions that had it. …

I propose that we create a "tag warning" for mint, because it seems like we are getting a lot of OT questions about Mint. Now you say, this is a dupe! Well yes, sorta, but nothing came out of it. …

have quite a lot of tags for various Linux distributions/Operating Systems/things that could be off-topic if specific about them: debian, mint, fedora, crunchbang, windows, android, macosx People do tag … questions which aren't about Ubuntu but are about this tag - so it could be a good idea to have a warning that could appear next to the question - something like: N.B. …

This is a discussion about a tag, not an invitation to mass-edit questions containing said tag (at least for now)** We have a kvm tag. … Some initial ideas include: Keep the kvm tag, clean up the wrongly-tagged questions, and request a tag warning for that tag Pros: Less work, Create a kernel-virtual-machine tag, and retag all questions …

We already implemented tag warnings to make people provide that information: Tag Warning Is Now Live for "Wireless". …

I'm not 100% sure what his intention for using it was, so I'm just gonna post a screenshot of the current results: Looks like we're discouraging maybe 12% of askers from posting in that tag. … For comparison, here are the stats for every other tag warning currently in the system over this same time period: …

I do however like the tag warnings as discussed here and have in the past edited tags on EOL releases to indicate that fact. …

The last bit heavily depends on what tag is applied - see list below: Unix & Linux Qs: mint elementary fedora debian bsd currently nonexistent tags - could be created if needed: redhat, archlinux, mageia … And so on for different things , perhaps even programming questions (with tag:LANGUAGE) (though those are half the fun :) Main meta thing: http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/11508/would-a-off-topic-tag-warning-be-a-good-idea …

EDIT I have edited the tag 11.10 like so: Questions about this version are likely to be closed because it has reached its end of life. … I left the wiki untouched, because we only want the users to see a brief warning when they pick the tag. …

Ubuntu is trying to tell me something In the course of removing the warning tag from a few posts I encountered the tag messages, which is currently attached to 62 questions. … and that we might be able to try to restrict this tag to with proper usage guidance and... a lot of vigilance? Is there another reason why this tag is useful? …

Let's talk for a minute about the recovery tag, again. … Furthermore, we add a warning in the usage guidelines, similar to the following: DO NOT USE THIS TAG! …

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