It seems almost all requests to add tag category/hierarchy/organization/etc have been shot down.
I'm suggesting a different variety: automatically add the appropriate "category" tag(s) when the question is posted.
Here's an example for my personal interest, very similar to a previous answer: On SO there's swing
tag, but many people (especially n00b
s) use specific tags like jtable
, jlabel
, etc. without using the swing
tag. It would be a huge pain, if not impossible, to add all JComponent
subclasses to my interested tags and RSS feed.
Per ThePony's answer, moderators would try to merge/retag, but it obviously hasn't happened (at least not completed) with those JComponent tags.
So instead of imposing it on our dearly-beloved mods, why not let the engine do it automatically, so that whenever a question with only jtable
is posted, add swing
to it? Or at least it can suggest the category tag(s) to the user.
The tag categorization/hierarchy should be maintained by mods or with high rep users on the category tag (the swing tag in my case).
jtable
tag stays as is. It does NOT implyswing
. Insteadswing
is automatically added (or at least suggested) to the question. 2) I did NOT suggest addingjava
.swing
is a large and self-sufficient enough tag to stand on itself. Only St. Skeet can follow language tags.