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11:15 AM
Time to unthaw the tag discussion room!
 
bmike has unfrozen this room.
 
There's a lot in this - some request for a specific action - but also some harder problems about when to collapse several tags into one and when not to aside from the mechanics of one specific tag or group of tags.
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Q: Removing tag synonym

Jackson1442I was doing a little bit of poking around today and realized that waterproof is a synonym for environment. Seems correct, right? Well, let's take a look at the description of environment. Environment variables are used to create shared settings that persist between invocations of applications...

@Glorfindel I'm looking forward to getting help and more eyes on tag curation.
This area in particular will benefit from a team that works on these together. Let's get you and @grgarside engaged if you each want.
Also paging @Monomeeth to the tag room : - )
 
 
5 hours later…
4:07 PM
I think it's high time that we actually make new, better tags once and for all
 
 
1 hour later…
5:19 PM
Here is a great example of a tag change making one question worse.
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Q: Can I use an iPad on the beach safely?

dpollittI want to bring my iPad to a beach to do some reading while on vacation. I am concerned about sand getting into its ports and causing damage. Obviously water would also be a concern, but I am not planning on taking it in any water. Does sand propose a significant threat and what can be done to li...

The enviromental tag seems far better due to temperature, sand and heat / sunlight being the major factor as opposed to a “waterproof” ipad
 
Yeah, I didn't really know how to salvage that one. I felt this was better than to let it have a tag which was applicable in name but not in excerpt.
 
5:46 PM
This question would greatly benefit from my suggestion here: it's probably better to reverse that synonym direction.
 
 
1 hour later…
6:59 PM
We have "environment-variables" questions which don't directly relate to "commandline" (all the "How can I set env variables globally/via launchd/etc" things), so I doubt that we are looking at synonyms
 
Good point - as long as there’s a reasonable “we use this tag for this and not that” we can edit into the tag slugline - I’m all for having a few more tags. The problem to me is when we don’t have guidance on what the tag means in the context of welcome questions to use that tag
 
 
4 hours later…
10:44 PM
What exactly is the point of the tag? It seems that all questions covered under that should be filed under , , or anyways.
 

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