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Should "zoom" tag also apply to the videoconferencing software?
I had a look upon questions tagged with zoom. Only a small portion of them are related to the meeting app "zoom". I was able to only spot three. Most are using it to show that the question ...
RavexinaMod
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Thoughts on a history-of-ubuntu tag?
While it smells an awful lot like a meta tag, I can certainly see the value:
It tells potential answerers what the user is looking for (a historical report).
It should be interesting for people to ...
OliMod
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Let's burninate [mint]
We also have various windows tags as well as e.g. macosx, kali or debian although we do not support questions that are specific to those foreign operating systems.
Their main purpose are dual-boot ...
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Purpose of the "split" tag
remove this tag
I vote to delete this thing.
One could think about making it solely about GNU coreutils' /usr/bin/split, but in my opinion this program does not really need a tag of its own.
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Should tags be edited out from a question if they appear irrelevant?
You should absolutely remove irrelevant tags, wrong tags, add missing tags and anything else that makes the question better. Collaborative editing is a big part of the SE model and tags are not ...
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Should we ditch [glitch]?
glitch seems to be completely undescriptive as a 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 ...
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Let's spin the [wheel] for ideas on how to handle this tag!
Update: given that everyone agrees here, and no-one has objected, the questions have been re-tagged using the plan below
I propose that
Questions about mouse/scroll wheels are re-tagged to use the ...
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Can software recommendation still be used?
This tag is in use and fully on topic, but remember your question should be specific and clear, see the software-recommendation tag info:
Questions asking for specific applications that perform a ...
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Does the [unreadable] tag make sense?
Every now and then, somebody will go and type parts of some error they're seeing into the tag box, and if the have more than 300 reputation, the tag system will gladly create tags out of each ...
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Can version tags be removed if a question can be modified to be general to all versions?
Yes, and I believe version tags should be avoided as much as possible anyways. They make the question have a limited value.
I would even go as far as believing that removing versions from title and ...
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[warning]: questionable tag detected
I would agree that the warning is pointless and while I don't follow specific tags personally I don't see warning as being useful to anyone. I support the idea of eliminating warning entirely and have ...
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What should we do when encountering wiki excerpt suggestions on useless tags?
I'd say to reject the suggestion and to get rid of the tag.
Creating / editing a tag wiki excerpt for a tag that has no reason to exist puts the cart before the horse, and shouldn't be encouraged: ...
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Should we take [pictures] and [images] out of the picture?
images is a poor tag name, not only because it does not define any specific task or software, but also because it has more than one distinct meaning, especially in our scope. A brief survey shows that ...
ZannaMod
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Someone made a meta tag [review-audits] - is that a better name than [audits]?
I believe review-audits is a better tag name than audits. The main reason is what you say: it is less ambiguous. But there is another, minor reason.
review-audits will be easier to find and, for users ...
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A custom filter for excluding posts with specific tags?
You can ignore tags.
Hover over to the tag and click "🚫 Ignore Tag".
Find "Ignored Tags" window on the right side of the homepage, click on edit and select Hide questions in ...
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Prevent misuse of the ".desktop" tag
I'll move my proposal from the comments to an answer so that people can vote on it.
I propose to rename it to desktop-files, because:
Having a leading dot makes sense only when referencing desktop ...
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Why ask-ubuntu can seem frustrating to the average user
So far you've asked a question 9 times and answered a question 7 times.
Only 2 out of the 9 questions you have asked (excluding this one) has been downvoted (this one and this one); personally I ...
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Is the rtorrent tag useful? If so, should we retag these posts?
We have tags for some other BitTorrent programs1, such as deluge, ktorrent, transmission, qbittorrent,utorrent, and--though it's only on a handful of questions and I don't think I know anyone who uses ...
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Should the [software-recommendation] tag be deprecated?
Overlap in scope between Stack Exchange sites is not generally considered a problem. Literally every (on-topic) question on our site would be on topic on Unix and Linux Stack Exchange, for instance. ...
ZannaMod
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The [groovy] tag became ambiguous
Great catch! Another alternative - we could remove the tag altogether. Do we actually need a tag for that language? There are only 20 questions in the tag (including the wrongly tagged ones) and most ...
ZannaMod
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Why do we have so many usb tags?
I'll add my opinion on each tag. But in summary, I say we should get rid of all of them except usb-drive.
usb-drive
Excerpt:
For questions regarding storage drives that connect using a USB port.
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Maybe [hdpi] is not high enough, add [hidpi] as a synonym?
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 ...
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Tag synonyms: [17.10] and [ubuntu-17.10]
We don't seem to have tags like that for other Ubuntu release numbers. No ubuntu-16.04, for example, just 16.04. Since there were only two questions tagged ubuntu-17.10, I've just retagged them to 17....
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How do I respond to my question being marked as a duplicate when it clearly isn't?
It isn't so clear that it's not a duplicate to your question, since you have very similar symptoms to the linked question. You said, in the comments to your question:
See my post (edited) for the ...
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Should the copy.com tag be removed?
I went through all the questions tagged with copy.com. Each and every one of those 12 questions (the 12 remaining after you removed the tag from the post you referenced) is actually in relation to ...
Thomas WardMod
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Are [dual-monitor] and [dualhead] the same?
Update: synonyms were added. Thanks to everyone who voted
Considering that the tag multiple-monitors has 3096 questions tagged right now, we may want to make all of those synonyms of this tag.
Back ...
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Synonymize tags related to partitioning
I agree. Some even have both; seems overkill to me.
And it is 767 :=)
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