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The monster that can't be killed
It may be a good idea to have the tag blacklisted.
I've reached out to Community Managers at the Tavern on the Meta as this can only be done by Stack Exchange employees.
SE developers can blacklist ...
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What do a writer, taxi, and horse have in common?
It seems to have three primary uses:
The poster thinks they've been hacked, and they want to undo what the bad software/entity did. Example.
The poster is trying to break into something and needs ...
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Is there any difference between the tags "windows-server-2003" and "windows-2003-server"?
Agreed. Windows Server 2003 appears to be the main tag and lines up with the actual product name.
Merged and synonymised.
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Time to change [pop] flavor(s)
pop as referring to the mail protocol isn't a bad tag. It definitely shouldn't mean "Post Office Protocol" and "pop-ups" at the same time, though. There is already a much more widely-used pop3 (>170 ...
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Let's part ways with [computer-parts]
Considering that Super User has a seperate tag for nearly all computer parts, (ram, cpu, power-supply, hard-drive, motherboard, graphics-card just to name some), I think this tag can safely be removed....
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Is [numbering] tag useful or too vague?
I see no way that this tag is even remotely useful. I'm amazed that it's amassed over 100 questions.
We should burninate it.
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Don't hate the [player] hate the tag
Yes, player is too meta. What to do about it?
On many questions, it's just decoration, duplicating a specific player tag. Delete those.
On some other questions, separate word tags are used in place ...
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I recommend tossing [hardware-rec]
I agree philosophically, but as a practical matter, blatantly off-topic tags serve a useful function when they are subjects that will always be improperly posted here.
We will never stop hardware or ...
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Pew Pew the Laser Tag
Set Lasers to Kill. Leave none standing. Feels like the classic MetaTag. I'm doubtful the average end user will be working directly on a laser sans other context.
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aria2 vs. aria2c?
aria2c has been merged into aria2 and a synonym created.
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Disconnect the [intermittent] tag
Yeah, it gives no useful information at all. And its small enough not to flood the front page. I'd be inclined to wait a day or two, and if no one has a good reason to keep it, nuke it.
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Pew Pew the Laser Tag
I have removed all of these now. The majority required the laser-printer tag adding. There were a few talking about optical mice but not enough for a new tag of optical-mouse so I left these as mouse.
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aria2 vs. aria2c?
My understanding is the same as yours: both aria2 and aria2c are used interchangeably. They should be synonymized.
The command you use to run the utility is aria2c. From that point of view, using it ...
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The monster that can't be killed
TylerH mentions in a comment the idea of using a synonym. This might be a simple solution for all problematic tags. It could work like this:
Create an anchor question that is tagged with do-not-use-...
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aria2 vs. aria2c?
aria2 is package name and aria2c is a binary file inside it. As you can see here, aria2c is the only executable file inside aria2 package. Also its official website says:
aria2 is a lightweight ...
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Drop kick [dropout]
Taken care of by @DavidPostill as per his comment:
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Is application-error an error?
I say burninate application-error.
Super User has a long-standing tradition of burninating error-related tags. I see no reason to break this tradition now.
error: What could we do with the [error] ...
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Time to change [pop] flavor(s)
Since POP reached version 3 before Internet popularity became mainstream, and then stayed at that version number, nearly all POP users use POP3.
One solution: split into two tags by renaming POP to ...
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Clean up document formatting tags
I thought there was a page formatting tag covering all these things, but apparently not. Individual tags for every page element make no sense. However, an argument can be made for a page formatting ...
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Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again
While going through the google questions I came across one with a konica.
Konica are a manufacturer of printers, scanners, etc. (I think they have a heavy industry division as well).
There are only ...
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What do a writer, taxi, and horse have in common?
Just to close the loop on this question, the tag has been cleaned up. The majority were simply decoration, others were retagged as appropriate, following suggestions in the answers and comments.
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Unsynonomize [synaptic] and [synaptics]
I agree that they are distinct and separate.
It seems that the original synonym was created here and someone even mentioned the unfortunate nature of the synonym.
I have broken the synonym, a tag ...
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Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again
Even after we destroy tags, they can be recreated. I just re-torched asus; it had accumulated four questions in a couple weeks. You can see a list of newly invented tags on the "new" tab of the tags ...
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Is [GNU] a manufacturer meta tag?
I don’t know what the manufacturer meta tag list is but from reading Manufacturer & Company tags are back, I gather that it’s a way of removing tags that aren’t particularly useful by replacing ...
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I speak [spanish], and [english] too…
I agree, but you only found the tip of the issue. We also have tags for german, chinese, korean, japanese, farsi, arabic, and hebrew that I found in a quick search (there's likely more). I think any ...
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Let's deal with the [if] tag, else it'll become a problem
While most legit uses of if will be conditional statements, there will likely be a small but significant number of posters looking for tags to add, and if is a very common word.
I believe the better ...
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Clean up document formatting tags
Sounds like these might fit into text-formatting as it is formatting the text around the page. We would need to synonymize those and then add those meta-features to the tag wiki. That being said, the ...
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How to handle acronym tags, especially if not unique?
A standalone "Do not use" tag for the acronym, that guides users to the spelled out tags, would seem to be the best solution within SE's current features and limitations. The main problem with that ...
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Let's expel [native]
Seems like the classic meta tag. It should go. I've started trickle editing them.
Annd gone
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