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Allow tags to be blacklisted specifically from appearing in the HTML page title

The HTML page title feature which puts the most popular tag on the front of the question is a very useful tool. Problem is two-fold, however. It kills our game-specific SEO if we try to implement a ...
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Is "mod rec" really an umbrella category that we want to use? Or is it confusing the situation?

This is a bit of a take on the discussion largely brought up by this question of last Fall, but to take a different approach to it. One might also gander at this oldie. As an upfront note, any ...
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On Meta, [mods] is an alias to [moderators], but there are also discussions about game mods

I found four questions that use the moderators tag while discussing game mods, as in the mods tag on main. Presumably, these questions used a mods tag, before it was aliased to moderators. Do "...
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Sorting out the tagging mess

A lot of users, myself included, believe the current tagging situation is a bit messy. This has been discussed before: A personal appeal to Jeff Atwood: Recent Changes to Gaming Let's talk about [...
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Are questions about mods on topic?

Are questions about mods to game on topic? For example "How can I play as infernal in Fall From Heaven II" for Civ IV. Related: What's the stance on mods to PC games?
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Does our policy on recommendations extend to game mods?

This recent question (among others) is reminiscent of a game-rec question, in that it produces a list of subjective + localized answers. Similarly, these questions seem to be the "Is there a game ...
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What's the stance on mods to PC games?

I've just spotted this question and a bit of research yielded this mod which might solve the problem. Is it OK to post links to such mods?
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Search auto-converts words to tags - but I didn't want to search for the tag!

This is probably more unique to Gaming than SE at large. I was trying to search for questions about mods in swtor. Not mods, but mods, the actual items that you can slot into your equipment. So, ...
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Is the mods tag valid here?

I saw that QAvenDreamer added the mods tag to this question. My question is why? According to my knowledge the mods tag is unnecessary, because Dota already has its own tag.
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Export of tags with disproportionate question-to-follower ratio?

We've had a few discussions lately about proper use of tags on SGE: Let's talk about Mods [baby] An End to Endings Request for Tag Burnination: Review All are based off of the same concepts: Meta ...
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Do in-game modifications go into the "mods" tag?

In games where you can modify your weapons or gear(warframe, Minecraft's Tinker's Construct, LoZ Ocarina of Time's magic arrows), does a question about the functionality of those in-game modifications ...
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"mods" tag as it applies to modded consoles

Looking at this question: What's these files in PSP? This person is using a modded PSP firmware revision. According to this meta thread: What's the official stance on hacked/modded ...
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