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I'd really like to be able to search C-only articles. Right now C and C++ articles share the same tag, which makes it tedious to sift through.
Is there perhaps something I'm missing?
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Pavel Rahl wrote: Is there perhaps something I'm missing?
That some lucky sod would have to go through all of the existing articles by hand and decide which category they would belong in? There are only around a thousand, by maybe 800 different authors...
Are you volunteering for the task, because trust me, I'm not! 
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I wouldn't mind doing it on a case-by-case basis as I see them, but I don't have enough time to go through all of them.
I wonder whose bright idea was it to actually have those two languages in a single category.
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That's the problem - nobody has. And a system where "some" are correctly tagged is useless to everyone, especially those specifically seeking C based information.
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Well, it's already useless. The C/C++ tag could be kept, because it might be relevant for some articles and 2 new tags C and C++ would be created. C/C++ tag could then be removed from articles and replaced by C and C++ tags where necessary. New articles would also be correctly tagged without any extra work for anyone. It's a win-win situation even if nobody takes the time to go through all old articles at once.
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No, it would make it worse. If you had seen "C" as a tag and limited the search to that, you'd get almost no articles until a good number had been "converted". And if the category was split and all "C/C++" got both tags by default that would be even worse than what we have at the moment as your search limited to "C" would bring up loads of "C++" articles that seem to have been incorrectly tagged ...
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Hm, that seems to be true. Guess I can't think of anything that would solve it neatly. It's just a shame that new articles will still be tagged incorrectly, exacerbating the problem over time.
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There are different tags for articles (pre-defined in the article editor for C/C++ actually C, C++, and VisualC++; authors with sufficient priviliges are allowed to create new tags). But these tags are selected by the authors and moderation (which is mainly done by users here) will complain only about obviously wrong tagged articles.
If you want to search for articles having the "C" tag set, use "tag:(C)" followed the by keywords to be found on the CP search form. The parentheses ensure that only the plain "C" tag is matched and not all other tags containing the letter 'C' too.
Doing so you will probably realise that articles will be found having also tags with other programming languages like C# and most of them are not related to plain C. With those articles, the author decided to include C for some reason. As already told you by Griff, it is nearly impossible to correct the tags for all those articles.
To sum it up:
The author of an article is setting the tags and is responsible for choosing matching ones. The moderation should check for matching tags but such is not a reject criteria (and many moderators - read: users with sufficient privileges - probably do not check them).
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Adding new tags for C99 and C11 would be a good idea. At least, new articles will be correctly tagged.
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C articles and C++ articles should be tagged with their respective C or C++ tags.
It's a huge project we've been considering for years: get the readers to re-tag content appropriately. We're just starting our Summer planning this week and taxonomy and tagging are right up there.
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Chris Maunder
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Glad to hear that, OriginalGriff and co. made it sound really hopeless. 
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Yep - a known issue that I'll be fixing this morning. Sorry for the delay - been a busy GDPR kinda few weeks.
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Chris Maunder
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It's our new minimalist design. You like?
(It'll be fixed this morning)
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Chris Maunder wrote: t's our new minimalist design. You like?
Try to find out fool in a deal. If you can't find one, it's you.
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Web01 seems to be even worse:
<li class="content-list-item"><div class="title"><a id="ctl00_MC_PendingArticles_AARA_ctl03_T">Owner Draw List Control with Design Pattern(Strategy)</a></div>
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<span class="modified">1 min ago</span> by <span class="author">YangManWoo</span>
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The only one that has a title doesn't have a link to the article. 
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Not only am I having to log in at random intervals today, but even when it says I'm signed out, it knows I'm a moderator:
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Same here. Also, I could not reply to any messages yesterday for a period of time, as when I went to click post button, it said that anonymous users cannot post replies....I was logged in - not anonymous.
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When changing from the initial forum (I enter via the Lounge) I lose the new message indicator on all forums.
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Nothing in the header about message or indicator - what be this cookie thingy. 
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I assume that the time stamp is tracked using a cookie in the browser.
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Getting the sign in issue again. Every time I come back to the site, I am prompted to sign in.
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