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This question relates to tags, the words or phrases which describe the topic of a Server Fault questions.

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Random idea: add tags of any question asked to user's 'favourites'?

Of the 19 tags on the questions I've posted, 3 are on my favourites already and the rest I wouldn't actively seek out questions with those tags like I do for MS Exchange questions. … I might still answer some of the questions with those tags, but it'd be more luck than judgement. …
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Equivalent tag to 'homework': 'do-my-job-for-me'?

Tags are a means of categorising questions, and in my opinion this isn't helping anybody find the questions they're looking for. … Edit: I'd actually go as far to say that homework and do-my-job-for-me are probably both meta tags and shouldn't be used as per The Death of Meta Tags. …
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What's going on with tags on profile pages on SF?

The devs are aware - please see https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/71913/tags-on-user-page-are-not-formatting-correctly-on-server-fault …
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Retag or synonym Corruption tag

The other tags contain only a few questions, and I think there's few enough that they can be handled manually. … I'm all for using corruption as the correct tag, and since new users can't create new tags until they have 200 rep, I hope simply manually removing the other tags will keep them away for good as the more …
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Please burninate the [server] tag

On Server Fault, we have the server tag with 2283 questions as of this post. The general consensus is that it's a useless tag and it doesn't help to sort questions, but the sheer number of questions t …
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AS400, iSeries, and IBM-i are all the same system

Like I said, I'm all in favour of synonyming these tags, but I would rather see the [as400] tag as the "base" tag to which the others are synonymed to because of its popularity. …
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