Questions tagged [blocklist-request]
This tag is used in requests for adding one or more tags to the blocklist, preventing them from ever being used again. For other questions about the tag blocklist, use [tag-blocklist].
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Burninate the [leetcode] tag again and blacklist it please
Again leetcode raised its ugly head:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77083564/multiplying-large-numbers-with-precision-issues-how-to-correctly-handle-floatin
There seems to be only a single ...
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Disambiguation of [gp]
Tag info for gp
Microsoft Dynamics GP is a mid-market business accounting software or ERP Software package.
is very similar to that of dynamics-gp
Microsoft Dynamics GP is one of several ERP (...
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Rename ambiguous [sf] and [sp]
I've encountered two tags used for R libraries: sf and sp.
Both has tag info and a significant number of questions and watchers.
But both had questions erroneously using these tags. Most likely due to ...
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Tag [cfg] was created again
Tag cfg was created again. This time it was used on the questions of four categories:
ones that should be tagged with context-free-grammar instead. I re-tagged them accordingly.
Ones that should be ...
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Should we cleanup and burninate the [meta] tag?
Problem
As of now, the tag meta (supposed to be used for the HTML-element) is misused for question regarding
Facebook/ different products by Facebook (aka. Meta. Given the relative recency of ...
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Let's [remove] it once and for all
The remove tag has been burninated last year.
I saw that it reappeared and new questions were tagged with it.
Hence, I suggest to blocklist it with the following error message:
Tagging a question ...
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The [adventofcode] just started - Stop it before it gets out of hand
I saw adventofcode had been created where essentially the same tag (advent-of-code) has been removed from the system last year.
While I removed adventofcode from the questions associated with it, this ...
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Let's say bye bye to [hello]
There is a hello with no questions in it if you go to the "Newest" tab for the tag:
But also hovering over the tag on the same page shows it has one question:
This is a known issue - the ...
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Let's [do] some blacklisting
The tag do has been burninated in 2014.
However, it was recreated (even though there are not many questions).
I can imagine this tag being created and removed frequently.
Therefore, I propose to ...
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Sack the [career-development] tag
There is, apparently, a career-development tag. It has two questions, both of which are closed and likely to get roomba'd soon; there is no tag usage guidance or wiki. Questions about career ...
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Too much [carbon] is bad for the environment
It seems like carbon was made a synonym of php-carbon in the scope of this MSO post (which was probably fine at that point) (or it was probably synonymized later).
However, as there seems to be a new ...
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Let's permanently [exclude] this tag
exclude has previously been burninated and is now back with another 75 questions. According to rodgort, it has been revived thrice since its initial burnination. It's time to get rid of it for good.
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[how-to] burninate this tag?
Seriously? We have a how-to tag? Well... we shouldn't. Let's go through the criteria:
Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous?
Absolutely not. ...
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Re-burninate and blacklist [check]
The check tag has re-appeared in the last month after being successfully burninated twice: ~7 years ago and ~1 year ago. I think we should re-burninate and also blacklist it as it's just being misused ...
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Clean up [pod] tag
The word Pod is used in many different context and has very different meaning in each context. I suggest that the tag should be cleaned up and the questions should be tagged with more specific tags ...
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