It has been a while since  and some new features were added. When that happened, a new tag [tag-watching] is created. This was created as a master tag of already present .   However, there is some inconsistency after this process.    There are many old questions tagged with  like this one  So, merge these tags. In the  section, it shows that there are 420 questions with  and only 16 with . When we click on former, we see all 420 questions. But the hover and tags give a wrong count. While we write a question, we are shown tag suggestions. When we write questions on this topic i.e,. favorite tags, we are suggested the synonym  but not the master tag . Is this also caused due to the same reason         To solve this, can we merge both these tags?  This is a request asking merge of these two tags different from asking why is a tag synonym showing up on a question. By performing merge, inconsistency in showing number of questions in search and tags section will be solved.
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The question  seems to be tagged with , which, last I checked, is a synonym of . How is it possible that a question can be tagged with a synonym? Don't synonyms automatically get replaced on questions?
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I think this message/div/box was just added today since I've never noticed it before, it is very noticeable.    I'm already aware that I'm hiding questions because I selected to hide them in my preferences. Isn't this a bit redundant? Now I have to scroll down more to be able to click to the next page. Plus see that same message dozens upon dozens of times a day.    Here are my ignored tags. So I'm going to have to see the same message on any question page that I'm on. Even though I already know questions are being hidden. I'm not understanding the point to this new div/box notification.  Does anyone find this new div/box useful? Do you find it redundant?       EDIT:   Also, this isn't just for StackOverflow.   I only have 2 ignored tags for CodeReview currently. And I have it set for only 15 questions per page. But still, on every page I click to it shows!
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I want to search for several related tags at once. When I type multiple tag-names in the search box, only one gets selected and I have to sift through a horde of non-pertinent questions.   E.g. 1: I want to find all questions where 'java' AND 'netbeans' AND 'tomcat' all are defined per question.  E.g. 2: (this may be a bit much to hope for) I want to find all questions where 'java' AND 'netbeans' BUT_NOT 'tomcat' is defined.  Alternatively, is there a way to search through the previous search results?  Is this possible?
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Whenever I read a nice question, I used to mark it as a favorite question. Today, while I was looking at my profile's favorite section, it was as follows:    Why does my favorite count vary on my profile? Is it a bug, or am I missing something with respect to the favorite section of my profile? I marked the areas causing confusion with circle in the picture.  Kindly clarify
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I'd like to propose that the tags exist and existdb are merged.  After going through multiple edits where exist (22 followers) was changed to existdb (12 followers) it became apparent that these really should be one and the same.  Note this is not the same as:   As that is recommending renaming just one of them.  Perhaps the merged tags together could be called [exist-db]?
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I have a favorite Tag including a wildcard  in my Favorite Tags list to get all question tagged with wpf. (Currently 63,210 question)  Now when i click on a Related Tag, such as  (the count behind the tag states that there are 26,324 question), the c#-Tag gets ignored and the result is still all the 63,210 questions.   The result of the tag-filtering above, should be equal to the search [
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Over at ,    To this end, the tag listed first on a question (sorted by popularity of the tag)  So, what's the basis for tag popularity? Views? It sure as hell isn't number of questions.
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Just found one question on SO with the tag . Got intrigued and went after explanation. Found empty wiki but used in 458 questions. Edit: 241 179 150 61 50 now.  0 to go!  Some tagged it because of , others relating to , others , etc  I feel this is a confusing and not helpful tag. Can someone clarify it so we can add a wiki to it, or should this tag be burninated?
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SE is really acting up today, sometimes it doesn't show any questions in the questions tab in the sites.  I first noticed the problems when I opened my questions tab, and this shows up:        All I did was change the name of the question, and now meta stackoverflow thinks it's two questions.  Well the thing is, MSO actually created it as a new question!  Why?
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It would be nice if we could subscribe to an RSS feed of all the questions that match your 'favorite' tags i.e. an RSS feed of the questions that get highlighted as yellow when viewing the question list. You can achieve a similar effect by combining tags as described  and , however this is a pain to maintain, requiring the RSS URL to be edited in the feed reader if you start monitoring new tags, or stop monitoring old tags, also you have to worry about getting the syntax correct (c%23 instead of c# as an example). It would be much nicer if we could simply subscribe to a URL such as:  Then you could change the tags that are included in that feed from the ‘prefs’ subsection of the user account area.
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This seemed to pop up at the same time as . Suddenly, asker's profile information is being pushed to the next line if the tags take up too much room:  I can't remember how this was handled previously, but I've never seen the profile pushed to the next line like that. I think the tags used to just go over-top of the card?  Edge, Version 91.0.864.41 (Official build) (64-bit)   More examples:      Easy way to reproduce this bug: Search for some long tags.  and  are good candidates.
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I think most people who come to Stack Exchange to answer others' questions - they look for the new question according to their favorite tags.  Since such behavior is a default on the Stack Exchange website - the feed of the newest questions in relevant tags would be best for most users.
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It looks like the  tag (later renamed to ) is a holdover from the pre-split days when this site was called Meta Stack Overflow and also served as the meta site for Stack Overflow (in addition to its current purpose). It was intended to disambiguate questions about the SE network as a whole from questions specifically about Stack Overflow (). It has nearly 1,500 uses, so it's too big to clean up manually. It looks like people are still using it on new questions, and I just saw a suggested edit that only added this tag. Since all questions here should be about Stack Exchange, can we burninate this, the ultimate meta tag?
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When looking at the tags on , I've noticed that many tags do not have the tag-excerpt. To my surprise, after I clicked on some of them I found out that they have a tag-info. (In fact, it is also displayed in the tooltip also on the tag-page.) When hovering over "history" link in the tag-info, I get a tooltip saying "This is the default initial version."  It seems that for some tags the tag-info is automatically created when a new meta site is created. (The only ones I found were the mandatory tags and moderator-only tags - see also: .)   Is this behavior intentional? I think tag-excerpt for these tags should be displayed in the same way as the tag-excerpts for other tags are.  Here is a screenshot of what I see on :    Here is what I see when I check :    And here is :
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It has been a while Favorite tags were added Big Brother eye  changed to Watched tags and some user interface improvements were added. () Our faq is  to reflect that change. But the related help center still has guidance about old Favorite tags and ignored tags, and uses outdated instructions, terminology, and imagery. Look at .    Can this be updated to reflect the new change?
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There are two Java Web Start tags:  : x 239 : x 320   Both tags refer to the same technology  refers to  both wiki point to  all questions tagged with  clearly relate to Java Web Start   I suggest they be merged into  (which appears in the auto-complete list if one types "webstart" in the Tags box when asking a new question).
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This question was posted using the Android App.  When posting questions using the Android application, tag selection can be a little tricky &amp; error-prone.  The web application provides an autocompletion list of suggestions as you type, but no such list appears in the Android app. It would be very useful if similar functionality could be implemented there.  Also it appears that entering a new tag is friction-free, as might happen when fat fingering a tag. As a demonstration I have tagged this question with a false tag.  It should not be this easy to create a new tag, as I would guess the majority of these cases would be mistakes.