@Bebs I voted to close the recent question How to delete an Artists from the Spotify library? as off-topic following your vote to close, since the question seems to be more about Spotify support than about music appreciation (broadly speaking).

I recall seeing a few other questions about Spotify, so I did a search and found the following three: How to find "recommended" playlists in Spotify, What are the inefficiencies of Spotify? and Spotify radio cannot hide songs?

The first one seems on-topic to me—it's more like a question about using a piece of technology to improve one's listening experience than a support question for the app. The second is already closed as opinion-based.

But the third one ought to be closed, imo. It too reads like a support question for the Spotify app, like the one recently asked about deleting artists from the library. So, I've voted to close it as off-topic for this reason.

I thought it would be good to pre-emptively list my thoughts about the other Spotify questions, hence the above messages.

True!

What we can do now is to vote to delete some of these closed questions, if we have the necessary rep to do so

The "inefficiencies of Spotify" one won't be Roomba'd because the answer is accepted and has a positive score.

@Bebs I use this script to know about the Roomba status of questions: stackapps.com/q/7239/61479

It's quite useful for cleanup! And also to push some unanswered but interesting questions away from auto-deletion as well, but that's rare.

@Bebs Me too

Btw, since the recent network-wide change in the close reasons list, it looks like the "Needs details or clarity" close reason works just as well for ID questions that lack info as our custom close reason for such questions. What do you think?

We rarely receive such hopelessly unclear questions, though, isn't it? It makes that close reason itself quite redundant for us.

On Math.SE for instance, there are loads of questions where one has literally no idea what the OP is asking. (I think a technical stack tends to receive more such questions. . .)

@Bebs That's right. I was just thinking of other ways to make our close reasons more streamlined, along with the proposal to add a new one for YAL ID questions.

@Bebs I was browsing SEDE to see if there were any queries to find closed questions sorted by close reason, and I found this interesting query: data.stackexchange.com/musicfans/query/552453/…

Although, I don't know, you might have access to similar results already from the 5k privilege?

@Dom Sure!

@Dom Could you take a look at these old Meta posts of mine when you get time, about tag cleanup? 1. sample vs. sampling, 2. song-interpretation vs. meaning and 3. concert vs. live-music.

@Bebs Sure, no hurry!

About 3. above, action was already taken by @JohnnyBones, but it is at odds with the discussion in the comments, so it's a bit confusing.

I will also republish this older message of mine, about merging synonymised tags:

@Dom Understood, no problem.