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07:43

In relation to an ongoing election, this post was mentioned: Include information about elections in the newsletter. One of the tags on that question is newsletter, which is a synonym of community-digests. I have noticed that: Searching for [election] "cast your vote" shows this question among th...

To get this on SE's radar, a status-review tag needs be added to the question. A bounty draws attention from users, which is helpful when it needs more support or user input, but doesn't let the company know about the issue. Adding a status-review tag generates a ticket in SE's task system, which will be triaged into a feature request/bug sent to developers. Without a status-review tag, it should be assumed SE doesn't even know about the issue. To have a status-review tag added to the question, raise an "in need of moderator intervention" flag to request it be added. — Makyen 15 hours ago

@Makyen Well, a rather similar post on meta.SO is tagged (status-review): How to find a question by its old tag when that tag is synonymized with another. — Martin 10 hours ago

Nope, that was escalated as support, not a bug. — Makyen 8 hours ago

AFAICT this is either status-bydesign or at least it is not very likely to get fixed soon (if at all).

So the way I see it, "getting attention from users" is a reasonable thing to do - so that more people are aware of this problem. (And try various other methods for searching when they know that there is a synonym.)

And, of course, bounty could bring this to the attention of the mods too - and if they consider this important enough, they might add the status-review tag.

Recently I have been told on Meta Stack Exchange that it is supposed to work this way.

At the same time, a Stack Overflow mod told me that they consider this a bug and that it was reported in the linked thread.

Worth noting that at the moment, merging is required to work around a synonym/search bug where synonymised tags don't appear in search or on the tag page. The main reason mergers don't happen is that there are roughly 1000 unmerged synonyms, which requires a lot of moderator time to process — Zoe ♦ Jun 30 at 13:40

@Zoe So that is actually considered a bug? I've been told that it is the expected behavior - for example here; or maybe, an unimportant edge case could be a better description. ("In practice, an unmerged tag synonym will behave incorrectly. The software is not really designed for this case. Ask a moderator to merge the tags.") — Martin Jun 30 at 14:22

The search thing? Yes, and it has already been reported — Zoe ♦ Jun 30 at 14:29

The link in that comment goes to: How to find a question by its old tag when that tag is synonymized with another.

Q: How to find a question by its old tag when that tag is synonymized with another

On Meta, chatgpt has been synonymized with ai-generated-content, but when I go to its tag page, there are only 7 questions listed when I know that there were way more questions with the chatgpt tag alone. Sure enough, there are some questions that are tagged chatgpt but cannot be found by either ...

support status-review search tag-synonym-process

@Makyen Following your suggestion, I have flagged for the moderators' attention. I still think that putting a bounty here is not completely useless - I tried to explain this here in chat. — Martin 18 secs ago

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Martin

10:18

Q: Tag synonyms and searching

bug status-review tags search tag-synonyms

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