Before you start doing anything, put a little bit of thought into the request:
Does this tag even need to be burninated?
There are a lot of burninate-requests here that are... To put it gently... A complete and utter waste of everyone's time. Some folks will seemingly post a request for any ta...
@Rachel Nice job! I honestly didn't see the value in having that on our site. It just seemed like any other question asking about finding fifty bucks on the ground, but you turned it into something that makes sense. :)
Happy to see the system works, and that the post got some nice edits and a critical mass of community reopen votes!
This is a great example of how the "close early, close often" process works.
@jmac yeah we discussed this at length earlier and burnination is too harsh. The latest idea is to do a massive tag review, untag it where the question is generic enough, leave it where it is unique to software. I'm not sure if anyone updated meta yet.
Probably also update the tag wiki to make it more clear that it should be a question unique to the software industry and link to the thread
Before you start doing anything, put a little bit of thought into the request:
Does this tag even need to be burninated?
There are a lot of burninate-requests here that are... To put it gently... A complete and utter waste of everyone's time. Some folks will seemingly post a request for any ta...
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