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It's time to blacklist [library] [closed]
The tag library was burninated by Jeff Atwood during the 2012 Great Tag Removal Thingymajig.
Since that fateful morn1 it's been re-created most days by people with more reputation than tagging ability....
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The [specific] tag seems useless [closed]
The tag specific has been applied to 112 pretty random questions just because the word happens to be a part of them. It doesn't seem to add any value, it's too common that a question applies to a "...
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Where'd the [asp] tag go, and why did it come back? [closed]
I'm having a hard time tracking down where asp went. I know there have been a few requests (example) to ban/blacklist/synonym it, but I can't find which one caused it to stop existing.
Regardless, ...
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Zend-ectomy 2.0: Can we get a blacklist / tag synonym this time? [closed]
Last year, I nuked the zend tag. Despite watching the new tag list like a hawk, it's somehow managed to come back from the dead.
The tag can not stand alone. Zend is a company. A VM with their ...
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Merge [ndk] into [android-ndk] and blacklist the former one [closed]
There are two tags now android-ndk and ndk for the Android NDK.
Considering tags usage (1075 for android-ndk and 322 for ndk), and since it is explicitly encouraged to:
use the Android-specific ...
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Please blacklist the [problem] tag ... again
problem is back, and it shouldn't be.
It's been burninated at least three times, and that last one was supposed to be a blacklist.
Please murder it once and for all.
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Blacklist the [learning] tag [closed]
As far as I can tell, learning is an unnecessary meta tag that deserves to be burninated, especially now that we're on a roll. Note that this tag has been burninated before and yet it still refuses to ...
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Please blacklist the [help] tag [closed]
It's previously been burninated, and has been edited out of existence more than a few times by more than a few people, myself included. But it keeps coming back.
While there is a case for having ...
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[not-working] tag [closed]
Do we really need the not-working tag on Stack Overflow? It sounds similar to the blacklisted tags problem and question which were previously banned. Maybe somebody can ban not-working too.
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Tag removal request: [development] [closed]
The development tag is on 1524 questions on Stack Overflow, and seems to serve no purpose whatsoever; it could very well be slapped on nearly every question on SO. Should this tag be nuked?
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Remove 'Fun' as a tag [closed]
Please remove the fun tag on Stack Overflow. It's a meta tag and isn't really useful in categorizing questions.
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Tag ban request: [problem] and [problems] [closed]
The problem and problems tags are useless. Basically every question is about a problem already.
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Tag blacklist request:[apple] on Apple.SE [closed]
Could the tag [apple] be put on the blacklist at Apple.SE? It's currently a synonym for [apple-inc], but we've found that doesn't actually solve the problem.
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The "without" Tag [closed]
Currently, there are 25 questions on SO that have without as one of their tags. A sample of some of these questions' titles are as follows:
Twitter Oauth via PHP WITHOUT cURL
Marquee without Space
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Please ban the [bounty] tag [closed]
There are currently 7 questions tagged with this ridiculous tag. Because as if having your question featured on the "Featured" tab and having a blue bubble appear on the title isn't enough to tell ...
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Blacklist [not-programming-related] [closed]
This is a duplicate of Can we disallow the use of “belongs-on-xxxxxxx” and “not-programming-related” tags?, but I'm bringing it up again because it sounded last time like "We would blacklist this if ...
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Please blacklist the [noob] tag [closed]
[noob] is making a slow come back; there were 8 questions today.
Could this tag be either black listed or transformed into an actual word?
Currently [noob] pops up in the tag auto complete feature, ...
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Please remove and blacklist the [begin] tag [closed]
Out of 8 questions currently in the system, 5 were created by this user as an obvious attempt to circumvent the blacklist, and the other 3 are on questions from people who didn't really understand the ...
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Ban [programming] as a tag on Stack Overflow [closed]
Any post not about programming should go, after all, so it adds no information.
I noticed five such tags in the 10k tools today. Four were completely spurious and have been removed. One appears to ...
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Can't keep a good tag down! [closed]
As might have been expected, now that beginner has been expunged, newbie is starting to take its place!
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Please ban the [best-practises] tag [closed]
The [best-practices] tag is already banned on Stack Overflow, though there is a [best-practises] tag taking its spot among newcomers.
Related blog post: The death of meta tags
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Tag block request: [best-practice] [closed]
Per Jeff's blog post (The Death of Meta Tags), we should not be using best-practices tag. Question here asked 1 hour ago uses the best-practice: Is it better to return the most specific or most ...
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