Bernmeister

@Tim Job well done!

@Seth Yeah, I've come to the same conclusion. Seeing that @Tim is hot on the case, I'm happy to defer to him :-)

@Tim Ironically I too was re-tagging 'installation' ... but manually :-)

@Mateo No idea - from reading the questions/answers I found I believe it's default behaviour for StackExchange.

@Seth feather == feature!

@Seth So I haven't as yet found a definitive answer to link to in the event I re-tag an old post and someone is annoyed by that.

@Seth Frankly, not quite sure where I should go from here (in terms of re-tagging). Those answers simply restated the problem: re-tagging old posts makes them appear at the top of the front page and that it might annoy some users! One answer/comment was to simply ignore old posts as they'll quickly filter down. Another answer was that StackExchange likely won't implement the feather to stop this from happening.

@Seth Restored my confidence (and both, as did yourself and @Luis). Did you see the URLs for the posts/answers I found (I posted in the other room)?

@Seth @Luis From yesterday's discussion about re-tagging: I got a reply via email from the StackExchage mods. Got a nice apology and advice: ask Ubuntu meta!!!

@Luis: As ALL the retags had been approved I assumed it was the right thing to do, until I got comments at the tops of these two questions: askubuntu.com/q/3201/67335 and askubuntu.com/q/571/67335. So...should I have retagged? I ignored this user but if I retag again I want to direct him/her to something more formal.

@Luis: I'd been retagging questions with deprecated tags, specifically 'installation' to 'system-installation' or 'software-installation' or whatever is relevant). As my changes need review, I couldn't tell what I'd changed from looking at the search results so I did it in batches - first the newest questions and then the oldest questions and then back again.

@Luis: I'd been retagging a lot of questions in the last couple of weeks. A user made a few comments (that were rather goaded) and I wanted clarification. I can give you the links to the two questions in particular if need be, or resubmit my feedback somewhere else. All I wanted to know is if I was doing the right thing or breaking some policy (and to determine if the comments made by the user are offensive and should be reported).

I sent some feedback/questions to AskUbuntu via askubuntu.com/contact last week and have not yet had a reply. Is that the best way to contact the moderators/admins?

@Seth @Luis: Actually I have my answer meta.askubuntu.com/a/1498/67335.

Looks like meta.askubuntu.com/questions/11679/… and the user who asked the question had the same idea as me...oh well!

Done and dusted. Thanks muchly!

@Seth: Yep. I'll FIRST look for a similar question on meta...THEN will ask my question. Don't want to more hot water!

@Luis: Thanks.

Do I go on to meta (the site itself) or its chat version?

(I assumed that)

Thanks kindly. When I first read his comments and his question what had I actually done to help, I wanted to direct him to my PPA and show him the software which I've written for Ubuntu and it's users!

Thanks for the clarification. I might just stay out of the way - I'd rather err on the side of caution :-)

I assume you're reading the links I sent in the other chat room...

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