Questions tagged [blocked-tags]
Per-site lists of tags that cannot be created or used. To suggest a tag be blocked, use [tag-block-request] instead.
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Undeleting a question can also undelete blacklisted tags [duplicate]
The question and revision history.
When the question was deleted, we hadn't yet blacklisted homework. Once the question was undeleted, the system recreated it. It probably shouldn't do that.
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Diamond moderator rollbacks can resurrect blacklisted tags
Example revisions.
A diamond moderator rolled back a question to a state where it had homework. This effectively recreated the tag, despite it being blacklisted.
This should not happen, and is not ...
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Semi-blacklist tags (put tags on hold)
Currently burninated (non-blacklisted) tags can just come back (do they?).
I personally don't think most 1500 reputation users have enough experience on the site to know when to recreate tags we've ...
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Blacklisting a tag with synonyms breaks a few things
According to Jeff's answer to The [error] tag has come back to life! the error tag is blacklisted.
I've been removing errors, which is a really pointless tag, but have noticed a few strange things.
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When it is appropriate to ask for blocking a tag?
On Drupal Answers, I sometimes ask for blocking tags that are very bad, or too broad to be useful. Considering there is also the possibility of burninating a tag (removing it from the history of the ...
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Warning when using a blacklisted tag - is it customizable?
I suppose that when a user tries to submit question with a blacklisted tag, he gets warning of this type:
sorry, the 'example-tag' tag is not allowed.
(I don't know this for sure, but I guess this ...
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Is it necessary to removed an unwanted tag from the questions before to ask for its burnination?
I notice that here on Meta Stack Overflow, when somebody asks for black-listing a tag, sometimes a developer will reply saying the tag has been black-listed. That answer seems given indifferently from ...
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How do I use the 'Blocklisted User Input' information page?
The Blocklisted User Input page found under Moderator Tools is as barren and non-descript as the /reputation page. There are a few read-only entries, so presumably the entries can only be edited by an ...
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Give moderators the ability to manage blacklisted tags
The request to Implement a Tag Black List was first raised back in Aug '09, but as one of the mods on English Language & Usage pointed out only a few days ago, even moderators don't have access to ...
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Can tags or synonyms be blocked from being used or blacklisted?
Are there any blacklisted tags on Stack Overflow? In addition, is there a way with moderator access that you can blacklist a tag?
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All I want for Christmas is a list of burninated tags
Would it be possible to make the list of blacklisted tags public?
The list would help establish precedence when determining if a tag should be put forward for burnination. This will simplify the task ...
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How do tag blocklists work? [duplicate]
I've just discovered the tag-block-request questions on this meta, and wondered how and when this feature is used.
For example, I just discovered that we had a code tag (link) on Electrical ...
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Blacklisted tags on migrated questions prevent users from suggesting edits
When I tried to suggest an edit to this question, I got an error message telling me that I can't create new tags when I was not.
When I removed the [game-development], which is blacklisted on ...
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[bestpractices] pops up to replace the banned [best-practices] on Stack Overflow [closed]
I've just edited out fivesix instances.
While I'd be happy to see such questions go, if we've going to allow the questions the tag seems less meta than some. Otherwise we need to blacklist this ...
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Allow 10K users to vote on suggested blacklist tags
There are lots of requests popping up to blacklist meta tags. Could we get a feature for 10K users to propose and vote on tags for the blacklist? (And, maybe, to un-blackist tags, too).
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