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Dynamic
Dynamic
May 27, 2012 20:43
@YannisRizos beginners
Blog - Stack Exchange: The Death of Meta Tags
Jeff Atwood on August 06, 2010

There are a few tags on Stack Overflow that have bugged me for a long time. Namely:

subjective best-practices beginner

best-practices beginner

beginner

But I could never quite articulate what, exactly, was wrong with these tags. It’s been bothering me more and more as time goes on. So much so, that about two months ago, I was compelled to ask on meta: Should we permanently remove the [subjective] tag?

There are some weak arguments in favor of keeping [subjective], but that’s about the best its proponents can muster. The arguments against it are much stronger. I felt Shog9 made the best case: …

This is a meta-tag. Why do we have it?
And by the way, I won't be able to post the contest results tonight, but if you don't feel like it, I'll do it bright and early (at least here) tomorrow morning.
ChrisF
ChrisF
May 27, 2012 21:04
Tricky one this.
At first glance it does look like a meta-tag, but it could be useful.
Possibly.
What I'd suggest is a gradual edit process that sees if you can remove the tag from the questions it's on or delete the closed questions (flag if necessary). We might find that it's not useful (which would be my hope)
I'd suggest that it can be replaced by learning in all cases.
 
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ChrisF
ChrisF
May 27, 2012 22:16
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Q: Do we need to black list [beginners] tag?

ChrisFA while ago we cleaned up the beginners tag, but it has returned. Do we need to ban the `beginners` tag? Is now the time to request it gets added to the black list (after another clean up)?

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Q: Do we need to ban the `beginners` tag?

ChrisFI've seen a number of questions tagged beginners recently. This is a meta tag which doesn't add anything to the question or site. What benefit, if any, does anyone think that this tag brings? If there is no benefit I propose to remove the tag from all existing posts and re-tag any posts left ...

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