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What's the difference between serial-port and serial tag?

"serial-port" seems like, when used correctly, it would indicate the serial port itself, making it a hardware question not belonging on AskUbuntu. Wouldn't the correct tag be "serial-bus" or something …
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The "recovery" tag

Perhaps it should be blacklisted and it be recommended that more specific tags like data-recovery be used instead. It reminds me of the old installation mess. …
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Do we need the soundcard tag?

It seems, at least to me, that every question tagged soundcard would properly also be marked sound, and vice versa. Therefore, soundcard should be a synonym of sound.
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We have a Mint tag [duplicate]

We have a tag called mint, and one user said that it led him to believe that Mint questions are on topic, which they aren't. Is there any way in which this tag is useful or should we just delete it?
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Blacklist the "connection" tag

What kind of connection? Internet connection? USB connection? Asdfghjkl connection? It should be blacklisted, I think.
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Synonym request: [software-uninstall] to [uninstall]

I don't see any reason for moving a group of questions about a specific topic (software uninstallation) into a more general category (the uninstall tag). If your goal is to make a more fitting tag for …
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