I have nothing to add to the title: Why is the [best-practices] tag not allowed on SO any more?
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2strongly related: Why is asking a question on “best practice” a bad thing?– gnatDec 10, 2016 at 7:28
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See the official line which begins:
There are a few tags on Stack Overflow that have bugged me for a long time. Namely:
- subjective
- best-practices
- beginner
But I could never quite articulate what, exactly, was wrong with these tags. It's been bothering me more and more as time goes on.
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1Let's make some use of the superflous 'free time' barb: I've created an Area 51 'Coding Best Practises' site for you. area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/17184/coding-best-practises Aug 9, 2010 at 12:23
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I didn't mean you. Thanks for your efforts, but I think it won't replace the abandoned tags on SO for those users who used to put them on questions about best practices in whichever field.– RomanAug 9, 2010 at 21:18
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I'm amused to see that 'best-practices' is legal on meta, but not on SO. Aug 20, 2010 at 18:58
It was definitely a bad decision.
I'm just getting into PHP, and wanted to scan through the PHP questions by the best-practices tag so I could ramp myself up on what's current, but it no longer exists. Now you have to hope the text contains 'best practices'.
It would have been a natural if the tag had existed.
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1It's quite simple really. Just start by browsing the highest voted questions in that tag. Then search for “best practices” within the tag. This is, apparently, not a joke.– AakashMMay 22, 2011 at 20:40