@Karlson Are you sure about adding [usa] and [illinois] to a Q that is already tagged [chicago] (specially when [illinois] has no usage guide and the post is the only one with that tag)? For example, a mod has written just use the most specific tags for the question.
That is an issue I mentioned with regard to 'visas' in various forms. So far there seems (a) no consensus and (b) very little inclination to seek consensus (which to my mind is unhealthy).
Here is an example (admittedly Closed) of 5 tags applied. [usa] one of them (the origin) but not [india] (the destination). And neither [fra] nor [transit-visas], though they are at the core of the matter.
It is against SE policy but is being allowed. So I am confident we could choose a hierarchical one if we so wished (though still within the 5 max limit). However the worst outcome is what we have at present - inconsistency.
IMO as mentioned here gold tag is a factor to consider. Bag tagging does not aid searching - though question is whether adding 'general' tags is bad or good. I maintain it some respects at least not good (eg 'Closed' example)
@Fiksdal Mark is not restricted like the rest of us to only doing possible things.
the water filter questions are a bit silly but a few decades ago we would've made all similar kinds of jokes to questions about vegetarian and vegan food, gay-friendly hotels, etc
so we should allow people their quirks and only judge on whether it's travel related and a real problem for them
tags should be used to show contributors the most interesting new questions for them as part of a heuristic or even better part of a bit of AI
they are used to show the related questions and that does use other heuristics. and they are used in a very clunky way on SO to supposedly help users see questions they are more likely to be interested in
actually my real pet peeve is a controversial one. I hate when a lot of comments get wiped out and are replaced with a "moved to chat" nobody ever clicks on or cares about
especially when those comments are useful and relevant
For terminology: a 'pet peeve' is something that you find irritating, but it's below the threshold of reactive annoyance. Or to put the question in a more positive light: What's the one single thing you would change at TSE?
One 'pet peeve' per answer.
Please give multiple answers if you have m...
@hippietrail Have you tried 'side-by-side markdown'? I am assuming size is the problem - users are copying the existing text, modifying it and then pasting the result - maybe to avoid losing edits through clashes.
Dare I start with an anti-peeve? (I fear I may have rather a lot of peeves to add, if not beaten to them!) Moderation is much better/faster here than on, say, SO – and almost as good as my recollection of Web Applications. Synonymising on SO can take years and still be outstanding. Tag renames (eg 'pluralising') simply seems never done on SO.
@pnuts: it's funny at the time we went with plural tags we were seriously under the impression that was the preferred way on SO et al. turns out now that we're the only SE site that does it. but i like it. it's nice (-:
@pnuts: i'll check that out next time i'm interested in wormcans
@GayotFow It is way past my bedtime, so I am deferring responding to 'peeves'. But that is convenient as I don't want to monopolise all the adverse criticism!
(ie give time for others to catch any in common with me.)
When I looked up the Chinese word for "survive" so far I only came up with "生存"?
But the glosses into English 生存 cover "live", "exist", "subsist".
This seems to be quite different from the common English meaning og getting through dangerous event unscathed.
Is there a better Chinese word that ...
standard-visitor-visa looks wrong to me. but some things have official unique titles so it's conceivable it might be like ETA and ESTA not being plural
@pnuts: the big one was what to do with paperwork/documents/documentation
Growing like we are sometimes gaps and inconsistencies reveal themselves in our tags. Sometimes it's better to expand a tag for various reasons and sometimes it's better to split a tag for various reasons. Let's have a think about this group.
Right now we only have two of these terms as tags:
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@GayotFow: should it be plural? also is it for just one country or organization? if so should probably squeeze that in there if it can fit to prevent misuse
@GayotFow: if it's a proper name i wouldn't rearrange it but prefixing doesn't hurt. it's the closest you can do in a tag to putting (UK) or (for the UK) of (the UK's ...) in regular text
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definite things don't do singular and plural. it's all in my thesis on meta about plural tags and caveats. everything as it would be in the title of a paper.
I agree that's basically the rule: things that take definite articles (or would take a definite article if expanded to their full name) are usually singular tags; things that take indefinite articles take plural tags
but there's also tag naming disambiguations and concessions because users would make a mess and there's not always somebody to volunteer to clean up the mess
That on TSE it is so much less meaningful than on other SE sites I have visited - and the impact that will have in the long-term. (But I probably need to explain further on meta.)
gamification alters the cost benefit. people for whom the cost of participating is too high get the extra benefit of some seratonin or endorphin when things go twinkle or bling
no. i took the photo, which is very plain. googled for a certain kind of sketch i had in mind, and plugged the two into google deepstyle
but considering how many horrible deepstyle images people make i've come to think there actually is a bit of art in it. the other bit is throwing away all the ones that don't turn out so good. just like photography (-:
the original photo looked like nothing but it caught my eye after i chose the sketch to use as a style and was browsing my photos for something that would fit it
i feel bad for any americans here
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i feel bad for everyone else too but in a kinda different way
@ZachLipton who's unfriendly in Rabat? I quite liked it there. It was a city with historical stuff like medina but without the tourists of marakesh or even fes
the worst place to stand out as a tourist is the city where you get off the ferry, the next worst is marakesh because that's where the most marks are and the third worst is fez because it's the next must see city under marakesh
casablanca has nothing historic left. it does have a big new mosque. i like getting the feel of the actual place and culture rather than trying to reify tourist brochures. even casablanca has a medina and that was where i met some dodgy characters but also had a great time
beware the most beautiful girls in the world! they will flirt with you mercilessly just with their eyes from behind their veils knowing that you'd never come up and talk to them (-:
it was really weird traveling in South Africa last month and everyone trying to figure out how to bring up the subject of Trump
like in a bar, people will just say what they think, but like drivers or guides or this woman who worked at a place I stayed. They're trying to figure out how to say "you're not one of those people are you?" without massively offending a customer
though given their own political situation right now, not sure it's such a shock
It was a bit unfair to make fun of the water questions maybe, but the last OP was just pushing it too far, asking us to use Google for him and complaining in the worst ways when we did
@jonathanreez Maybe noone has been banned here. Site is too friendly
So, we all know this is a scam, and everyone are dying to know exactly how the scam was put together. How did the scammers get the information? Where are the scammers? Are they Americans or Nigerians? What is going in with OPs finance? Is he alright?
Where is he actually? Is he still in Nigeria, or has he actually returned? And why isn't OP talking to her fiance directly? How does he relate to the scam? Some of the clarifying comments are a bit cryptic, deepening the enigma. Perhaps we could migrate this question to Puzzling SE? It's the perfect mystery.
I am asking on behalf of my friend.
My friend doesn't have a gender (in other words they are gender-neutral) and on their new passport their gender is represented as X (indeterminate/unspecified). Previously booking a flight wasn't an issue because theirs previous passports stated they are a wom...
this comment travel.stackexchange.com/questions/79671/… also makes no sense, no scammer would give a bank account information. For one, it's hard to do transfers like that in the USA, for two, it's too easy to track them
U.S. Embassy London informs U.S. citizens that the Metropolitan Police have notified the U.S. Embassy of recent robberies and muggings in central London. In several of the incidents, assailants riding motorbikes have tried to snatch mobile phones, laptops, and valuables from female pedestrians. If you are a victim, the Metropolitan Police recommend surrendering the requested items and dialing 999 as soon as possible for police assistance.
My brother-in-law was detained in Jordan. He's a professional cameraman and went there to assist someone interviewing minorities, but as the authorities don't like that he claimed to be a tourist. When they saw his camera equipment, they disbelieved him and gave him a choice: enter the country without his equipment, or stay in detention with his equipment. He chose the latter.
For terminology: a 'pet peeve' is something that you find irritating, but it's below the threshold of reactive annoyance. Or to put the question in a more positive light: What's the one single thing you would change at TSE?
One 'pet peeve' per answer.
Please give multiple answers if you have m...
When I looked up the Chinese word for "survive" so far I only came up with "生存"?
But the glosses into English 生存 cover "live", "exist", "subsist".
This seems to be quite different from the common English meaning og getting through dangerous event unscathed.
Is there a better Chinese word that ...
Growing like we are sometimes gaps and inconsistencies reveal themselves in our tags. Sometimes it's better to expand a tag for various reasons and sometimes it's better to split a tag for various reasons. Let's have a think about this group.
Right now we only have two of these terms as tags:
...
