In my mind, ideally, there should be a fairly consistent "etiquette", if you will, when it comes to tagging wherein any two people asking the same question are likely to choose the same tags for that question. With this in mind: What is the appropriate use of the analysis tag? This tag's de...
In recent times we witnessed a couple of meta threads about old tags that are completely useless in today's landscape (e.g. this, or that). In both cases, these are tag remnants from an older system which was much more haphazardly put together. Sometimes it's easy to deal with. We can just delet...
Following Implement a Tag Black List, I would like to know what exactly it means for a tag to be blacklisted on a Stack Exchange site. Does it mean I can't use that tag on my question? What are the reasons for blacklisting a tag? Who can blacklist tags? Why am I being prompted to remove a tag f...
Currently, on Stack Exchange, it is customary to burninate a tag first, and blacklist it only if it becomes a recurring issue. I'm sure there's a good reason for this, but it eludes me. Why do we do it this way? If we burninate a tag, we're saying the tag is completely unwanted. It's either ...
In recent times we witnessed a couple of meta threads about old tags that are completely useless in today's landscape (e.g. this, or that). In both cases, these are tag remnants from an older system which was much more haphazardly put together. Sometimes it's easy to deal with. We can just delet...
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