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The current rules seem very restrictive:

Users with more than 2500 reputation and a total answer score of 5 or more on the tag, can suggest tag synonyms. Users with a total answer score (total upvotes minus total downvotes) of 5 or more on the tag, can vote for tag synonyms. Suggestions will be automatically approved when they reach a score of 4, and automatically deleted when they reach a score of -2.

This can be a killer for tags with not too many users.

Particular case in point: I am looking at the tag. The product is from my employer (and I don't have more connection to it than that) and has just been open sourced and rebranded as gocd to avoid confusions with golang (as much as possible)

Currently, it is very tough to get people who have enough answer score in this tag to vote on a synonym suggestion. It seems to be much easier to just create a new tag, which shouldn't be the right solution.

Any pointers?

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    related: Improving tag synonyms and Count related tags fractionally when determining eligibility for voting on synonyms
    – jscs
    Commented Apr 26, 2014 at 19:47
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    In this particular case, the system is doing its job well. The original tag has only 9 questions, and the new tag only 1. It should be very hard for users to create synonyms for barely-used tags, simply because the system does not need to be flooded with a bunch of synonyms for technologies that aren't even asked about very often here. Considering it's only 9 questions, retagging to the new tag go-cd is a far better solution than creating a synonym at all.
    – animuson StaffMod
    Commented Apr 26, 2014 at 23:37
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    @animuson - The tag has been in use for a long time. The first question was posted in April 09. Now, gocd has been added almost as a synonym to avoid confusions with golang. It made perfect sense for me to add this as a synonym. Anyways, till the community grows, will have to live with this.
    – manojlds
    Commented Apr 28, 2014 at 15:14
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    This seems very out-of-place. To suggest a tag synonym you need 2500 rep and +5 in that tag? That should read (if this were consistent with editing and suggesting tags) to approve a tag synonym. If a lower rep user in particular can suggest tags, why not tag synonyms? We have a queue for everything else.
    – demongolem
    Commented May 9, 2014 at 19:57
  • @animuson There are plenty of examples with tags with more questions, like this one. There may be enough users to create or vote on it, but they need to know about it and care first.
    – Bernhard Barker
    Commented Aug 13, 2015 at 17:48

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