Should the [read] tag be removed? [closed]

Question

I just looked at the read tag, and the question seem to vary among reading binary data (from somewhere), reading text, reading files, and other unrelated things. There's only 6 subscribers and no tag wiki, along with a small count of questions.

What should be done with the tag?

Answer 1

Agreed, both read and write are now burninated.

Only two questions were left untagged (may be referring to deleted questions), which indicates to me that these tags were 99.99% superfluous.

Answer 2

Kill it! It's not helpful at all, and it could mean almost anything, as you say, depending on the context. I'm starting removal now :)

Answer 3

In that token, wouldn't write also make a decent candidate for burnination too? They're both I/O operations, and io could handle both cases neatly.

(And yes, I'm all for cleaning out read.)