It's right there [in the Meme question][1]. It means just deleting a tag. With fire. > **Meme**: burninated > > **Origin**: Possibly [Jeff Atwood](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood) / > [Strongbad: Trogdor the > Burninator](http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail58.html) > > **Cultural Height**: 2010 - 2011 > > **Background**: Used in reference to **deleting a tag** from the system. > > **See Also**: The official [burninated dragon][2], [Trogdor the Video Game](http://www.homestarrunner.com/trogdor.html). In all seriousness, here's what usually happens: A tag, when it's burninated, is removed from all questions that carry this tag. This will just remove the tag from the system, but it can easily be re-created by users [with the privilege to][3]. If a tag is really bad, and chances are it'll be recreated soon, then it can be blacklisted. Only few tags are blacklisted, but there are many good examples, such as [tag:homework] on Stack Overflow, or the [tag:pc] tag on Super User, which are both [Meta tags][4] and shouldn't exist. To get a tag blacklisted, asking on the site's Meta is a good choice. This is nothing moderators can do—in fact moderators can't delete tags either—so it'll require community consensus and a developer to do that. [1]: http://meta.stackexchange.com/a/101417/159624 [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/M2qer.png [3]: http://stackoverflow.com/privileges/create-tags [4]: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/