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Should we tag questions with a SharePoint version?

In SharePoint Overflow 1.0, there was some encouragement to tag questions with a version, e.g. sharepoint-2010 or sharepoint-2007. This can be great to help answer a question, or for people that only ...
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Like hats? You can have one by celebrating the holiday season with StackExhange!

Last year, on our Gaming site, we hosted an event called Hat Dash, where users earned "hats" for their gravatars by completing certain tasks (analogous to badges). Certain actions would trigger ...
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Numeric version tags considered ... OK

As a followup to Version tags considered harmful TL;DR -- my main point in that post: The danger of version tags is that they become de-facto requirements -- crutches to avoid thinking about what ...
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What SharePoint SKUs are on-topic here?

I've noticed confusion around tagging the various SharePoint products which led me to think about what's on topic here. For example, just listing recent versions: SharePoint Foundation 2010 ...
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Has the policy for version tags changed?

In the last day, I have saw a minor spread of edits suggestions that only add a version tag. As far as I know, many of such questions are NOT version specific, still it seems that I am the only one ...
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What does "we will re-add some of the best quality content from the old site" mean?

In "SharePoint Overflow joins the Stack Exchange 2.0 family", it is stated that "we will re-add some of the best quality content from the old site". Perhaps it isn't phrased accurately, but this ...
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Questions about migration from SP 2007 to 2010 that use both the version tags

Probably I am thinking to much here, but I prefer to ask for guidance anyway. I was reading some old discussion about the version tags (2010/2007 ecc) and I had the (probably bad) idea to check if any ...
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Designer tag without SharePoint

I can see we have a tag called "designer". I am pretty sure this was called SharePoint-designer before. Designer doesnt make sense, it is a product called "SharePoint Designer". I hope we soon can get ...
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Stack Exchange team: Shouldn't the 2010 tag be deleted again?

Brief recap: Version tags were out of control Jeff deleted the 2010 tag We now only use tags that are version specific ...then all of the old SharePoint Overflow questions were migrated in and we're ...
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Tag synonym instead of blocking it: sharepoint2010 --> 2010

You decided that Numeric version tags considered ... OK and the 2010 tag exists. SharePoint has big differences (Feature/Development wise) between the 2007 & 2010 version and one should ...
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