Timeline for tags of mundanity that are gratuitously applied to posts
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| Feb 4, 2014 at 21:38 | comment | added | suspectus | @Kate With my software engineering hat on it irritates me that this clutter accumulates. It's useless noise and misleads novice users. e.g. OP with C++ question parsing text for underscore chars labels post "underscore" - 106 followers. | |
| Feb 4, 2014 at 17:51 | comment | added | Charles |
@joeytje50, they aren't. We have had exactly one public blacklist addition -- [google] -- in about two years.
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| Feb 4, 2014 at 10:48 | comment | added | joeytje50 | @Charles I didn't know blacklisting was also possible. If those tags are already blacklisted, why do you still need to follow them? | |
| Feb 4, 2014 at 2:07 | comment | added | Charles | @joeytje50, you forget that many of these tags are low-traffic. You'd never get the required in-tag rep to synonymize it with something else. In the end, it's really not much better than just letting moderators blacklist tags directly instead of needing the dev team to do it. | |
| Feb 4, 2014 at 0:40 | comment | added | joeytje50 |
@Charles How about this: Here on meta, there are mod-specific tags, such as status-completed. How about you create one tag, such as forbidden-tag, and then make each of those 179 tags an alias of that one tag? It seems to me this would be a lot easier than having to monitor all those tags. The tag won't be used on any questions, it would only appear as the bottom suggestion for any tag (for having 0 tagged questions), so users won't see it pop up unless you're actually trying to add one of the forbidden tags. (also posted this idea here)
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| Feb 3, 2014 at 22:15 | comment | added | Pekka | @Kate yeah, fair enough. But it's a lot of work and there are too many users to keep track of to make a difference. I think we'll end up needing to ban some of those tags simply because they get systematically misused by so many. | |
| Feb 3, 2014 at 22:13 | comment | added | Kate Gregory | @Pekka Reject, reject, reject! If you spot them when they're just starting, @ them and tell them not to. If you spot them doing it again, flag and beg a mod to hand suspend them. No different than any case of reasonably systematic or mechanical minor suggested edits (eg typo fixes, removing Thanks etc) | |
| Feb 3, 2014 at 22:06 | comment | added | Pekka |
But what about users who set out to earn their first 2000 rep specifically by adding for-loop et al. to any question they can get hold of that happens to be about a for loop?
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| Feb 2, 2014 at 4:41 | comment | added | Charles |
We still get someone creating visual and studio about once a month. There's an unfortunately good reason why I have a list of 179 tags I keep dead...
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| Feb 1, 2014 at 16:25 | history | answered | Kate Gregory | CC BY-SA 3.0 |