certification looks like a candidate for blacklisting burnination.
It's a meta tag that can be without harm edited out of worthy questions, and it attracts a lot of bad ones. See Why do certification questions keep getting closed?
As of now, this tag has about 40 28 regular questions, all close...
@Ixrec given that in April 2015 I proposed blacklisting, it is likely that back then this tag had much more questions than now. As of now it's indeed an easy target for burnination
I'm trying to stay in the habit of spending my close and delete votes every day, which given what I see in the queues is probably helping whoever is doing proper cleanups
@ThomasOwens all locked ones are gone indeed, thanks! there are 26 regular questions in there still - 10Kers have some votes to cast (I think I have edited tag out of all the questions that semed worth keeping, it turned out surprisingly easy)
Does anyone know if a Software Engineer can become a certified Professional Engineer or PE for short? I know that my buddies who are Mechanical, Electrical, or Civil Engineers were able to become PEs by taking an exam. Does such an exam exist in Software Engineering?
When I apply for jobs I have to compete with too many other software engineers who have little or no skill and dilute the candidate pool. I feel it devalues our profession and ultimately pushes down salary levels for all practicing software engineers.
I feel my career, and that of other skilled ...
The problem with many of the certification questions was that they were either primarily opinion based (should I get certification X?) or time-sensitive (about a particular test that changes).
@Ixrec You mean mine? I suppose they could decide to stop offering it. But that doesn't happen often.
@ThomasOwens first one can certainly drop certification tag without any harm. As for its fate, I don't have strong opinion on it yet, need to take a closer look
@ThomasOwens to me cleanup became much easier after I figured that it's much of meta tag - maybe not precisely so, but all worthy questions can go without it :)
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