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Within the past few hours (of writing) have had two tag synonym requests to clean up branding tags and to unify them under some centralized tags. … However, this brings up the following question: Are computer brand tags (like asus) even necessary for the site? …

I believe these tags are unnecessary for the most part. … Otherwise, most questions won't benefit from brand tags, solely because it doesn't honestly matter for the question at hand. …

It seems excessive to have three tags for the exact same thing. While tags such as asus-computer would be acceptable, there's no reason to then ALSO have tags like asus and asus-laptop. … Tags should be as easy to find as possible, and should be as short as necessary to convey the point. As long as there's no need to divide asus, we shouldn't. …

Judging by what that tag's use currently is, I'd suggest that the office tag either be burninated or clarified at least to be about office productivity software. For those not in the loop, office pro …

The lowgraphics tag does have some legitimate use: Questions explicitly about Low Graphics mode (so, not troubleshooting) Questions about low-graphics mode in certain DEs (like Unity) Working with U …

Second, a bunch of people (especially new people) have no idea how tags work. … This leads to interesting things like users typing abcde or populating the tag field with completely useless things because they think they need all five tags. …

Alright, so, there are quite a few tags floating around for (roughly) the same thing: remote-login - This tag, seeming to currently be for the remote-login service, but being used for anything remote … Of course, we also have the slew of specific tags, such as ssh, vnc, rdp, and so on. These should be kept around, and should be used in addition to the remote-access tag. …

We're limited to five tags per post. We should make them useful and descriptive so that people with expertise can find and answer those tagged questions. …

The tags are similar, yes, but they are not synonyms. Questions about vi very much do apply to vim as well, but questions about vim do not apply to vi. …

The tag is simply too generic and is better handled by other tags. For the cryptographic example, most questions can be tagged ssh, gpg, etc. … For keyboards, valid tags would be (obviously) keyboard, keyboard-shortcuts, etc. Due to the nature of this tag, it's probably bad to synonymize it and it's bad to keep around. …

As of now, there are no questions tagged key on the main site. Thanks to everyone who helped! Now, to deal with keys...

Instead, use one of the appropriate recovery tags: data-recovery for lost data, recovery-mode for the eponymous boot mode, or password-recovery for a lost password. …

shared is useless. Just completely and utterly useless. It doesn't refer to anything currently, is used all over the place (shared folders/shared libraries/shared memory), and has no definition for o …

I vote that we make hdpi a synonym of hidpi, as the latter is easier to read and seems to be the "official" name, at least according to the Arch Wiki and regular Google search results. Note the relate …