@Izzy I don't even read your tag edits anymore, I just do a quick glance to make sure someone didn't hack your account to post spam :P. Great work dude.

@MatthewRead LOL Yeah, "suspicious activities" :) Thank you!

I feel like when I get a support request for one of my apps I should put the question and answer on here for other users, but that would be pretty spammy

@DanHulme you're not the first dev to have that sort of idea:

it's a nice idea, but I agree with all the "why you would not want this" points too

What made me think of it is that I get more "how do I do this real-world task with your app?" questions than troubleshooting ones, and the answers are usually pretty similar and could be answered by anyone

adding a product wiki to my site would be an alternative, but nobody would look at it

@DanHulme I guess there's the argument that the answers to the questions that you get asked most frequently could benefit more people by being on a site that ranks highly on Google.

Even more so as the vast majority of people with a problem probably never contact you, but either suffer silently and grumble, or ditch your app and do something else.

@GAThrawn That's a good argument for always trying to make it easier to use, of course

@Izzy done

@Flow Thanks! So how about separating 'root' from 'rooting', so I can go on? :)

already on it

At MASE, 3 pros and no con on my question :) Oh! OK, then I'll go and speed up! Thanks!!

@Izzy done

@Flow Yepp, now I'm already on it :) Just updated the 'rooting' wiki. Maybe you can approve that edit, to re-direct new questions accordingly already. 'root' has its first question tagged, I'm now working on its tag-wiki...

Excerpt saved, so you could approve that as well :)

I always wonder how helpful advices about how to use a tag are. Since the tag excerpts are not really visible when creating a question. But they don't do any harm and it seems to be encouraged by jeff artwood.

@Flow You are not 100% correct: Excerpts are visible until you have the tag completed. Try e.g. typing 'unroot', and see the suggestion below the input box. Then complete the word to 'unrooting' and press space -- or simply click the tag suggestion. NOW the excerpt is no longer visible.

The only real point is: If even YOU did not notice that until now (being on ASE for -- how long? 2+ years, right?) -- what to expect from a new user?

Nobody seems to read them. Or how would you explain somebody tagging his own question 'development', where the excerpt clearly states "OFF TOPIC!"?

@Izzy Oh right, I think the main reason that I wasn't aware of that is that I didn't asked a question in months.

So the main issue is: How to draw attention to the tag wiki excerpts, and their links, and especially the full tag wikis?

I try to encourage this lately in many a comment: "Basic advice can be found in the tag wiki (link) -- and btw, hovering your mouse... first aid in many tag wikis..."

And yes, we have many "first aid tag wikis", I know that for sure (I wrote them #D)

@Izzy alas, that's too late, and we have a lot of users who never ask a second question

@DanHulme Yepp, agreed. But some other users read the comments as well -- at least I hope so...

Let's wait a few months, and see how things develop. Unfortunately, we cannot vote-to-close on behalf of a tag wiki...

@Flow I often edit tags of existing questions -- so that might be the reason I'm aware of many details in this context. E.g. I recently learned by missing the red "x" to remove a tag, when you click it on the very right edge you can edit it! That was very convenient on my "sd-card" cleanup: tack it, and the auto-suggest popup appeared, so I could freely chose between 'internal-sd', 'external-sd', and 'sd-card'...

... (which was one of the reasons I pushed you so much for the 'internal-sdcard' synonym :)

Done with the 'rooting' => 'root' ugh! But now for the shock: ~1.400 questions to check where we "rejected the 'rooting' tag as they were not addressing rooting", but might have addressed 'root'... =:-0

10% done, saying good-night for today..

@Izzy goodnight