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The bad tag collection
Summary
Ok, we have a lot of bad tags. I found at least half a dozen without trying over the weekend. Some of these tags have hundreds of questions in them, meaning that it will take a dev so that we …
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Can we black hole the "errors" tag?
It's worthless, IMO. Can we get it black holed, or at least discuss the possibility?
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Does the serial down voting algorithm take previous behavior into account?
Yesterday, I had 10 questions downvoted in rapid succession. This morning, I woke up to a serial downvote reversal as I expected I would. Shortly after, three of my top voted answers were downvoted:
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Canonical question CW policy
I've noticed that some questions in the canonical answer list are CW and some are not.
Is there a reason for this distinction? Should all canonical Qs be CW? If not, what is the criteria for this?
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Let's put [version] in a rocket and send it to the Sun
version seems like a worthless tag. Let's kill it. Ya dig?
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Clearing out the crap. We need some people with diamonds next to their name to help out!
This search from Deleting closed questions with no answers has really helped us delete a lot of the crap that has been sitting in closed-but-not-deleted limbo and has helped to raise the percent of qu …
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Is there recourse to a user making persistent trivial edits?
This user is repeatedly spamming the front page making trivial edits like this. I'm assuming he's just "farming" the Copy Editor badge, but it's unnecessary and annoying. Can a mod slap him on the wri …
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What the heck happened to the list of site moderators?
Many moons ago, /about showed a list of moderators with their appointment/election dates. This seems to be missing now. Has it been moved somewhere else, or did /about eat it?
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Why on earth was this flag declined?
I flagged this as Not an Answer. Apologies to Sven, but it's just plain not an answer. It's a comment asking for clarification and offering general advice. I asked for a sanity check after the decline …
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The [windows-server-2008] tag is a mess. Let the manual retagging begin!
[windows-server-2008] body:r2 yields a large number of results for questions about 2008 R2 that are tagged 2008. They're, obviously, very different operating systems. I don't see a way to fix this oth …