Tag labels appearing haphazardly

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The discussion revolves around the inconsistent display of tag labels on the tag intersections page. gdpelican reported that some labels aren’t showing up under topic titles, but appear correctly when visiting the individual topics. Falco explained that this behavior is due to the site setting “suppress overlapping tags in list,” which hides tags that match exact words in topic titles. neil and codinghorror suggested disabling this setting, as it can be redundant. sam agreed and has since disabled the setting on meta.

I’m not sure if this is a bug or not, but I don’t understand the current behaviour just yet.

Looking at the tag intersections page for docker/email, some of the labels aren’t showing up under the topic titles:

However, visiting the offending topics makes their tags appear correctly under the topic title:

There is a site setting to supress the tag if it is inside the title.

suppress overlapping tags in list
If tags match exact words in topic titles, don’t show the tag

I think we should turn that setting off here on meta. I don’t understand when you would ever want this behaviour.

I can see why, tags in title is rather redundant in the big scheme of things… it’s something @sam put in so he should weigh in here.

I am fine to disable it here, just went ahead.

The history of it is:

  1. We never used to show tags in lists
  2. I added tags to list
  3. There were complaints it was too noisy … “docker” “docker” showing everywhere on latest
  4. I added the setting for the suppression