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Should we burninate the [spam] tag?
For context, the tag description for spam says:
DO NOT USE THIS TAG ON QUESTIONS THAT ARE SPAM, we have a special flag for that! Questions about bypassing somebody else's spam filter are also not ...
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Do we need [effective-c++]?
There is effective-c++ tag. Currently it has 80 questions.
Its tag info states:
Tag for implementing and understanding guidelines and recommendations
in any of the books "Effective C++: 50 ...
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Please [downgrade] this tag out of existence
The downgrade tag has the following description:
This tag refers to the process of replacing a particular system with an older version of the same system
This tag does not really add useful ...
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Should we burninate the [cryptocurrency] and [nft] tags?
cryptocurrency - 778 questions
nft - 248 questions
Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous?
While they are in the same wheelhouse as blockchain, ...
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Should we honor Zoe's election by burninating the [zoe] tag referring to a deprecated tool?
I was celebrating the election of our new moderator, Zoe, when I stumbled across a tag named after her: zoe!
This tag only has one question. According to its tag wiki:
Zoë is an open source tool for ...
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Dis-[connect-four] better tagging
We should remove the connect-four tag. This is a game and doesn't really add much to the post. While we do have chess, there is a much wider audience.
Does it describe the contents of the questions ...
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Burninate [jason]
While it's not a widely used tag (it has 44 hits right now), jason (info) displays an impressive 10:1 mistake:correct usage ratio. As one can probably guess, it's slapped on various JSON-related ...
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Should we burninate the [question-answering] tag?
Currently, the question-answering tag has 172 questions and 56 followers. The tag is about
the computer task of mechanically answering questions posed in natural language.
The tag is misused as most ...
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Burninate [featured]
On Stack Overflow we have a tag featured.
Here is its Excerpt and Wiki:
This tag should NOT BE USED.
Give special prominence, attention, or publicity to items in a collection.
This tag should not be ...
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Should we de[create-function]?
The create-function tag seems unhelpful at best, despite the 95 questions tagged with it. For one, it has no usage guidance and is mostly used to ask about creating a function. The most common ...
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Do we need [seeeduino]?
Today I have found out about seeeduino tag existence. There is no wiki on this tag.
This tag has only three questions, one is currently closed as general computing. The other two seem to not need that ...
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I don't like [nice] tags!
Apparently we have a nice tag! So lets evaluate it for burnination!
Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous?
Well, if we look at the description ...
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I've got a little [list]
The list tag is very unclear and ambiguous, and more specific tags already exist for all or nearly all of its questions. Let's put it on the list of things to get rid of and retag. Questions with the ...
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Should we burninate the [security-by-obscurity] tag?
I came across the security-by-obscurity tag and wondered why we need it. If there is a reason for keeping the tag please enlighten me.
It contains 33 questions at the time of writing this. Only 9 of ...
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Should [seam-solder] tag be removed?
I just came across this question about soldering some hardware together. While there is probably a better site for the question, I was surprised to see the seam-solder tag. It has 12 questions, 2 ...
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