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Should we send [depression] and [suicide] to trained professionals?
Before you read what I say, please read this meta post: What's the official SE response to serious mentions of suicide or self-harm in posts?
Go back, I'm serious. Read it.
First case, at-risk user.
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Should we keep the [interaction] tag?
Isn't interaction just a roundabout way of saying "interpersonal"? That's the entire scope of this site. This feels a bit like a ubiquitous tag that doesn't really aid in any sort of categorization of ...
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Would creating an LGBTQ tag make sense?
I think it could be helpful for categorization, yes. This is information that will almost certainly be included in the question if it is relevant, but tags do make it easy to search for types of ...
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Should we tag our questions by (cultural) region?
Oh my goodness yes!
Social skills and norms, traditions, values... etc vary so much depending on where you are and the culture of that region. Pakistani social norms will be different from Canadian ...
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Should we tag our questions by (cultural) region?
At the very least, we should push people asking questions to provide regional or cultural context in the body of the question. I don't see a problem with tagging it, too. If the community feels the ...
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When can I use the lgbt+ tag?
In general, I think tags should only be used when they are relevant to the specific situation in the question (and that relevance is clear in the question). Like tag help says:
A tag is a word or ...
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Can we remove the communication tag?
As you say, almost everything in interpersonal skills is a form of communication.
This is a meta tag. If you're asking a question about a specific form of communication, that tag is preferable (e.g. ...
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Do [profanity] and [stutter] need their own tags?
Every topic on the site falls under the the tag "interpersonal"... Which is blacklisted for that reason. Arguably the same could be said of communication, since the vast majority of questions here ...
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Should we rename our country tags to be cultural tags?
Should we rename our country tags to be cultural tags?
I'd say no. But you raise a very good point IMO.
The location AND the culture can be (are?) important.
I don't think we can answer the ...
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LGBT+ tag question
It should be read as three possible conditions that would effect the question:
Gender
Sexuality
Lack of gender or lack of sexuality (Or romantic disposition.)
Because the lack of those things can ...
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Hygiene tag proposal?
personal-hygiene should work for anyone's hygiene, not just your own. If it relates to the hygiene of a person (as opposed to any other thing), then it's personal hygiene. If you look at the questions ...
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Rejection and Saying-no tags
I notice that all four questions using the saying-no tag are about how the asker can say no to someone. Out of the two questions using the rejection tag, one deals with something different: ...
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How this tag description is actually rejected for not describing when to use it?
1. It's plagiarized.
The first sentence of that text is taken verbatim from the first sentence of the Wikipedia article on Asperger syndrome. You did not attribute (i.e. give credit to the source) the ...
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What value does a new tag on a heavily downvoted/closed question have and what to do about it?
If anything queer would be a subset of lgbt+ and I would suspect that it's a small enough subset that it doesn't really need a separate tag at the moment.
Most people who would identify as queer ...
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Should we tag our questions by (cultural) region?
Tagging too many questions will discourage people from posting who are from outside a region/culture. We should tag questions by culture if it seems like the culture is especially relevant, but not as ...
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Is it a good idea to have classes of relationship types for questions to create context?
Definately, without a doubt.
As I've been told in both my questions now (and what no doubt I'll be reminded in questions to come) is that the devil.is indeed in the detail. We could have tags for all ...
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Should tags be pluralised or singular?
It's pretty standard on the other sites I use to use the plural version of tags along with the -ing version of many nouns (on Arts and Crafts, we use "crocheting" instead of "crochet&...
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Let's make difficult-people less difficult
Like what more specific tags?
difficult-people is useful. Also, I don't think it's being overused - currently there are 8 questions tagged with it, out of 236, which is about 3.39%, nowhere near 50%. ...
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After making a number of wiki edits I can't propose new edits
This isn't a bug. This is status-bydesign. Users who have under a certain amount of reputation can only have 20 suggested edits on a beta site:
From Shog9's answer:
As of a few seconds ago, this ...
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Do we differentiate [tag:autism] and [tag:asperger]?
For now I recommend we get rid of all of these tags because they are shorthand for longer terms. They can be made into synonyms of what I would like to recommend be the master tag:
autism-spectrum-...
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Should we make a "jealousy" tag?
Since there don't seem to be objections, I created the new tag jealousy and am adding it incrementally to the linked questions. I also wrote a tag wiki and summary - feel free to edit!
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Rename [instant-messaging] tag to [private-message] tag?
I read an interesting statement on the internet today:
Companies are changing their terminology from 'private messaging' to 'instant messaging' or 'direct messaging' because we all know those ...
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Should we re-tag closed questions?
Mostly yes.
If the question is closed as duplicate or too broad, then tag it properly.
Tags are defined as :
Using the right tags makes it easier for others to find and answer your question.
Closed ...
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Should tag descriptions start with "Questions about" or "To be used"?
Considering that the tag page will intentionally exclude some of this introductory text as discussed on Meta Stack Exchange, I don't know that it really matters. The reasoning in the answer there even ...
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Courtesy and etiquette: Can we make the difference clearer or synonymize them?
We don't need to synonymize them, because etiquette and courtesy have totally different meaning.
As per Oxford definition for etiquette,
The customary code of polite behaviour in society or among ...
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Discussing [tag:memory]
While I certainly think there could be a use case for memory, I'm not sure that either of those two questions fit it.
Rather than "forgetfulness" I would recommend we use forgetting. We want our tags ...
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How much should we be enforcing specific and regional questions?
I think this is a more difficult question than you might first imagine.
There are two sites I think it's worth looking at for comparisons - English Language Learners and Travel. Both of these sites ...
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When we should start reviewing/merging/deleting/discussing tags for the site?
Whenever we like.
Though we should remember a couple of things:
The CMs are the people who will actually be carrying out any decisions that we make since we don't have moderators at the moment, so ...
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Should we send [depression] and [suicide] to trained professionals?
This is part of the reason I thought the issues should be separated...
An awful lot of people deal with some level of depression at some point in their lives. The vast majority aren't suicidal or in ...
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