The arithmetic in post #4 is right; the assumption feeding it is the part to check. Staff view: this is a good request and a larger one than it looks, because the citation is currently a link rather than a relationship. Recording it properly is the work, displaying it is trivial.
On the subject in the title: Request: tag synonyms surfaced in search Working notes rather than a conclusion.
A follow-up question about tag synonyms surfaced in search that I did not know to ask the first time.
The earlier thread answered what I asked. What I should have asked is below, and I think it is the one that matters.
Where I part company with the opening post, and it is a narrow parting.
Tag synonyms surfaced in search is one of those subjects where the general answer and the answer for a specific case diverge, and the thread will go in circles until someone says which one is being asked for.
For anyone finding this later: the short answer on tag synonyms surfaced in search is that it depends on one thing, and the rest of the thread is people identifying which thing.
Fair. Then under the name, at a smaller size, permanently.
Happy to be the one who is wrong here if it settles the question.
The arithmetic in post #4 is right; the assumption feeding it is the part to check.
Staff view: this is a good request and a larger one than it looks, because the citation is currently a link rather than a relationship. Recording it properly is the work, displaying it is trivial.
Two claims get bundled together under tag synonyms surfaced in search and they need separating. The descriptive one — this is what was observed — is usually well supported. The causal one — this is why — usually is not.
Almost every disagreement in threads like this one dissolves once you say which of the two you are making.
Small request: let me filter Latest by whether I have read the topic. Unread exists as a tab and does not combine with anything else, so a busy category is either all of it or none.
Request from the analytics side: allow a table in a post to be marked as data rather than layout, so it can be copied without the formatting. Half the tables here are worth pasting into a spreadsheet.
If anyone can point at the primary source I would be grateful.
Building on post #11 rather than restating it.
A definition problem is doing most of the work in this tag synonyms surfaced in search discussion. Once the term is pinned down I suspect the disagreement mostly goes away and what is left is small.
Everything in post #11 holds. The case it does not cover is the one I have.
Request: an export of my own posts. Not for any dramatic reason — I want to search my own history offline, and site search is optimised for finding other people's material.
Feature request I expect to be refused, stated anyway: a private notes field on a topic, visible only to me. I keep those in a text file and the text file loses the link.
Post #11 and I disagree about the size of the effect, not about the direction.
Two sentences on tag synonyms surfaced in search and then I will stop, because the rest is speculation and the thread is better without mine.
What is documented is narrow. What is inferred from it is broad. The gap between them is where every argument here lives.
Taking post #15 at face value and following it one step further.
The reason tag synonyms surfaced in search is hard to answer is that the obvious measurement and the relevant quantity are not the same thing, and substituting one for the other is silent.
Understood. Thank you for being specific about the limits of it.
That reframing is better than the original request and staff would consider it. Which is a good illustration of why these belong in public: the first version would have been declined and the third is worth building.
The claim is narrower than it sounds, and deliberately so.
Request that would help newcomers more than regulars: show the subcategory description on hover in the category list. The names are terse and the descriptions are good.
Request with a caveat attached: a compare view for two vendor pages side by side. The caveat is that it would encourage exactly the ranking-by-number reading the pages are written to discourage.
What I would tell a new member reading about tag synonyms surfaced in search for the first time: the confident posts are not the reliable ones, and the reliable ones are longer.
I had written a reply contradicting post #22 and deleted it. Here is what survived.
Tag synonyms surfaced in search would be much easier to settle if anyone reported the denominator. Almost nobody reports the denominator.
This follows post #24 rather than contradicting it.
Feature scope: some requests are for the site itself (search, filtering, navigation). Some are for the documentation (new topics, different formats). Scope helps prioritise.
I am describing what is, rather than arguing for what should be.
Nothing to add on the substance. Thank you for taking the question at face value.
Use case: explain why you think the feature would help. "I would use this to..." makes the request concrete.
I would want a second opinion before relying on that.
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