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Help the helpless with how-to-ask tag tips
After adding a particular tag, such as
this super helpful assistant will pop-up to suggest what their question should contain:
Since forcing users to get badges or asking them "what have you tried?" ...
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Make it easier to prevent new questions being added in a tag
In part because of the recent controversy about downvoting questions for Roomba, @Shog9, myself, and others had a long conversation attempting to address the real problem: what are the goals of tag ...
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Disallow the tagging of questions with both C and C++ tags
A lot of SO users, especially novice or inexperienced programmers who frequently ask questions, are genuinely confused about the differences between C and C++. As such, you frequently find questions ...
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Provide asking instructions for SEO
The SEO is a cesspool in the middle of a dumpster fire. Every day people ask new off topic questions with the tag.
The SEO tag attracts only the best minds who are sure to check if their questions ...
user1228
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Provide asking instructions for [regex] - just like for [sql]
You won't believe this: regex suffers from low-quality questions.
First, as you may know, there are several regex flavors in use. The flavor can impact available features, valid syntax or much more ...
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A list of tag synonyms which are not proposed in Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow is a big community with users from different backgrounds. In Stack Overflow, tens of thousands of tags are proposed by different users to annotate questions. However, due to the ...
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Simple tag hierarchy to aid in searching / browsing [duplicate]
Many tags have natural parent tags, in the sense that a question tagged A would almost always be of potential use to someone searching or browsing questions tagged B.
For example, all winapi ...
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Benefit of creating a newbie or beginner tag
I come across posts which revolve around basic troubleshooting. These posts usually get downvoted and not a lot of attention. However, users still need support, and plenty of people are willing and ...
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Can we get a warning when a user tags multiple DBMSs?
I know that when a user tags a database question with SQL, we see the following message:
It does mention that it gets better answers if they include "one specific database engine". However, if I don'...
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Filter questions by favorite tags
We can currently save favorite tags, which seems to highlight questions in the list, and give a quick shortcut to filter all questions by only that tag.
But is there a way to in one or two clicks ...
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We should set syntax highlighting to Python by default for the `tensorflow`, `tensorboard`, and `keras` tags
The vast majority of code shown under the tensorflow, tensorboard, and keras tags is Python; the most commonly-used API for these libraries. It would be helpful if we could add automatic Python syntax ...
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Make android-java tag? [closed]
I was searching java tagged questions, and noticed that around 20 percent of them are also tagged android. When I look at these questions, they look like a completely different language. I am ...
user7627726
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Allow for Tag Antonyms
This is a fairly young idea, but I'd love to see some way of implementing "tag antonyms" in addition to synonyms. They wouldn't be strictly enforced, but for instance, if a user typed both mysql and ...
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Locking bad tags
There is a tag which has following excerpt:
DO NOT USE THIS TAG. It is ambiguous and not helpful.
There are 1369 questions tagged with it. This warning in excerpt appeared over one year ago. Since ...
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Display a popup when a low-reputation user tags a question with a frequently-misused tag
Very closely related: How should we deal with people misusing the [Visual-Studio] and [Android-Studio] tags?
To repeat the context from the linked post, here's the description of the visual-studio ...
