Timeline for Please stop mangling tag wiki excerpts
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| Jun 14, 2021 at 12:57 | vote | accept | caird coinheringaahing | ||
| Jun 14, 2021 at 11:24 | history | edited | Yaakov EllisStaffMod |
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| Jun 14, 2021 at 11:24 | answer | added | Yaakov EllisStaffMod | timeline score: 15 | |
| May 6, 2021 at 5:33 | history | edited | Journeyman GeekMod |
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| Apr 23, 2021 at 1:43 | comment | added | hyperneutrino | I generally just believe that the system should do less of this automatic formatting (or at least make it optional); each community can make their tag wiki excerpts more understandable, the system doing it is just annoying and basically tells every community that they can't be trusted to do things right. Maybe this is helpful for sites where it'd make sense to use "This tag is for..." in the excerpts but they don't want it to flood the tag list, but at least our site and sure many others just have no use for this automatic mangling. | |
| Apr 23, 2021 at 0:33 | comment | added | caird coinheringaahing | @RedwolfPrograms For larger sites, such as SO or here, scrolling through the list of tags would just become a massive list of "This tag is for..." We can encourage "good" wording of tag edits as much as we like, but the fact remains that the easiest way to start writing one is by using phrases like "This tag is for". Removing set phrases of no more than a few words at the start would cause the lists of tags to be slightly less monotonous, and would likely achieve the same effect | |
| Apr 23, 2021 at 0:12 | comment | added | rydwolf |
I don't see why it's necessary to replace things like This tag is for... anyway; it just results in inconsistent capitalization and descriptions, and for very little benefit. Removing this altogether seems like the best approach in my opinion.
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| Apr 23, 2021 at 0:08 | history | asked | caird coinheringaahing | CC BY-SA 4.0 |