This tag has been burninated. Please do not recreate it. If you need advice on which tag to use, see the answer below. If you see this tag reappearing, it may need to be blacklisted.
result (900+) sounds not very useful. Shall we kill with fire?
This tag has been burninated. Please do not recreate it. If you need advice on which tag to use, see the answer below. If you see this tag reappearing, it may need to be blacklisted.
result (900+) sounds not very useful. Shall we kill with fire?
I began writing this answer thinking of saving the tag, as "result" in the common usage means "output", but when I saw the tag itself and dug more into it, I agree with the burnination. The result tag has multiple issues:
All that said, a bit more digging reveals that more than 850 of the posts out of the 980 have answers, and just 20 of the posts are closed (non duplicate closure). There have been 90 posts that have been deleted, with around 70 of them being atleast 3 years old.
These facts show that the tag is being used in a non-harmful manner. I think this tag comes under the "pointless extra work" which Shog mentions in the original burnination criteria meta. So my idea would be to just look at the 66 negatively scored questions, close the ones that are needed, and just ask Shog to drop the guillotine on the tag.
Seems like a good idea to me - as far as I can tell, it's used when a program/query/function has some form of output, which is almost always.
Result always seemed like an unimportant tag, taking up space another more valuable/defining tag could be, most things do produce an output/result and even if they do/don't it is usually clear from the question itself whether or not there is an intended result.
Burn it, it is an unnecessary tag.
result has been burninated.
Thanks to everyone who participated.
resultSet
object.The result tag is in the process of being burninated. You can help out by reviewing the questions with this tag, and...
Here are some quick links to get you started:
We don't want to destroy value, so salvaging a post should be your first priority. If a question can be saved, please edit it. Your edit should improve all problems with the question and remove the result tag, possibly replacing it with another tag, as described above in "Observations/Retag Guidance".
If the question is not appropriate for this site, then don't worry about removing the result tag — just flag/vote to close the question.
At the end of the burnination process, all questions which still have the result tag should have been closed. These will be mass-deleted, which will remove the tag from the system automatically, with minimal disruption.
If you have any questions about specific questions you come across, or the process in general, please feel free to leave a comment on this post. You can also drop into the SOCVR chat room for real-time advice and discussion.
Result
type in some languages (Rust comes to mind). There don't exist tags for [rust-result] or [result-type], which would likely be better, though.