Linked Questions
27 questions linked to/from Platform Tags are Useless
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The Great Arqade Clean-Up of 2012
Don't just delete the tag from the question and ignore everything else. If a question also has grammatical errors, terrible title, et cetera, then fix it along with removing the tag.
Let's Get This ...
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Identify this game - removed?
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Yes, I have read the arguments. I found them lacking. While they have their merit, none of them really explain why ITG questions harm SE and why they must be removed. The only single fact that ...
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Tag rename request: [osx] → [os-x] or [mac] [duplicate]
The name of the platform is Mac.1, 2, 3 The name of the operating system is OS X.1, 2 Our tag is osx. That's not what it's called. Can this be changed to either os-x or mac?
Earlier, failed attempts ...
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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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Dealing with tagging policy inconsistency for iOS games
There's no specific discussion on Meta nor any mention in the ios tag wiki of how we should be using this tag and whether or not it's being used properly, so I wanted to discuss it here. We currently ...
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What is the right way to tag a game that has multiple platforms? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should questions always be tagged with either a console/platform or with “multi-platform”?
Platform Tags are Useless
I was reading a question about Kingdoms of ...
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Is there any way to combat the minicraft problem?
You probably thought this question was about minecraft. It's not, it's about minicraft. Nearly every minicraft question has, or has had minecraft answers, and the author has to add a disclaimer.
Is ...
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On the coming murder of "dependent" and "meta" tagging
The winds of change, they are a'blowin. This week's meta-murder question is:
Have we not been clear enough that meta-tags are a Bad Thing™?
In her answer, Grace specifically calls out previous tag-...
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Have we not been clear enough that meta-tags are a Bad Thing™?
We have some users going around specifically adding meta-tags to questions. I cannot fathom why, honestly. I thought we were very clear on this point.
But some people seem not to get it. They're ...
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Why are the top two tags being added to a question's title?
A few of us noticed today that Gaming has started adding twice the number of tags into the title of the page (if the Question title doesn't already contain the string in question).
In a word, why?
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Tagging games with numbers as series
Do we want to be consistent with numbering in our tags? There's generally two conventions, your standard 0-9, and roman numerals (i, ii, etc), and we're already using both. It seemed harmless at first,...
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Should questions always be tagged with either a console/platform or with "multi-platform"?
We appear to have instant consensus that a game tag (or game series tag) should be applied to all questions on specific titles.
Should we also look to apply either a console or platform tag (iphone, ...
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