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Raising the 25 chars limit for tags
-defined-behavior), which is rather ugly and to some extent thwarts the purpose of tags, i.e. easy indexing. … There are sites, as it was shown by others, that desperately need a much higher tag length limit, if tags are to be useful for them. …
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Burninate the [inside] tag
This one made me really ROFL: inside.
From what I saw inside that list there is little on SO that should not be tagged as such!
I didn't browse through the whole ~200 tagged questions (I stopped at …
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Should the [details] tag be burninated? [closed]
The SO tag details is overly broad and used by users for tagging all kind of questions. Probably it deserves a visit from Trogdor.
EDIT
As @Kara pointed out, details may refer also to HTML5 details …
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Burninate the [named] tag [closed]
Probably the named tag should be burninated. It's used in over 150 questions for a wide variety of topics. Among them:
named pipes
named parameters
named entities
named ranges
named functions
and …
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Burninate the [internal] tag [closed]
A huge (~450) list of questions is tagged as internal, but they have little in common. For example, there are questions about:
internal storage
internal arrays
internal errors
internal classes
inter …
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Burninate the [actual] tag [closed]
May I suggest that the actual tag be burninated? As it stands now, it is used to tag almost any question that contains the word "actual". It's really useless, in my opinion.
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Should the [paranoid-sysadmin] be eliminated?
I just came across 4 questions tagged as paranoid-sysadmin. Although the questions seem serious and legitimate, the tag seems like a joke to me. I felt the urge to edit those questions and remove that …
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Maybe burninate the [adjustable] and the [adjustment] tags
Maybe these two tags are a bit too broadly used and should be burninated: adjustable, adjustment …
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Making [alphabetic] tag a synonym of [alphabetical] [closed]
I think alphabetic should be made a synonym for alphabetical. Probably not worth a merge since people will keep writing one or the other, as they are synonyms in English as well.
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Is [analog] tag too broadly applied? May it deserve burnination?
This is related to this old question. Since there is no definitive answer on that thread and after more than one year the analog tag is still used for a really broad spectrum of questions (thus it doe …
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Should the [period] tag be burninated? [closed]
The period tag is currently used to mark questions (currently ~120) about rather different topics:
The period of a periodic waveform or function.
A generic period of time in various contexts.
The pe …
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Should the [concurency] tag be burninated? [closed]
Stack Overflow tag concurency should probably being burninated, instead to be used as a synonym for concurrency.