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Martijn Pieters
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It's time to blacklist [library]

The tag was [burninated by Jeff Atwood][1] 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. It then gets re-used by people with no reputation, but still more than they have tagging ability, on a near constant basis.

It's generally used by people affiliated to the "let's make a sentence when tagging" school of thought. The most recent two:

All it means is "I am using a library", the answer to which is "great, which?", or "I want to find a library", the answer to which is "care to describe your actual problem?". There should never be a situation where a tag this vague is considered needful.

I remove this tag constantly but it keeps coming back like the ugly wart it is. Can the blacklist be brought down upon this?

1. 9am UTC, he must have been up late. [1]: http://meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/128315/229

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