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I think the reality-check tag is a meta tag. In The Death of Meta Tags, we see:
The reason meta-tags are a problem is that they do not describe the content of the question. They describe some other aspect of the question, like the author’s skill level, or the author’s motivation for asking it, o...
I think the reality-check tag is a meta tag. In The Death of Meta Tags, we see:
The reason meta-tags are a problem is that they do not describe the content of the question. They describe some other aspect of the question, like the author’s skill level, or the author’s motivation for asking it, o...
Upon seeing this question, I took a look at the user tag, and it currently has 1366 unanswered questions, and 4326 total questions. Seeing as that's quite a lot, I thought I'd help with the burnination (am I correct in thinking the burnination is done by users?). However, I can't really tell when...
The strategy tag is in bad shape. It's low volume, only 24 questions (14 open, 10 closed) so this is like cleaning the base boards behind the fridge, but big or small, we clean things when we see they need cleaning.
The first observation I want to make is that it is often being used to tag questi...
I found myself browsing through the character tag, and I think it needs a lot of help. I'm not sure it can be saved, but I'll outline the problems I'm seeing and maybe the community can come up with some good solutions.
Tag Description Overlap
First, we've got some tag overlap based on tag descri...
The general procedure is as follows:
First, burninate the tag, if there are currently questions tagged with it. If there aren't currently questions tagged with it, you probably don't need to have it blocked - but see Step #2.
Once the tag is gone - no longer used on any questions - decide if it...
Before you start doing anything, put a little bit of thought into the request:
Does this tag even need to be burninated?
There are a lot of burninate-requests posted to various meta sites that are... To put it gently... A complete and utter waste of everyone's time. Some folks will seemingly post...
The low-hanging fruit has been...
SSD made a great point: there are usages of new-gm where it isn't a meta tag, but it just gets overwhelmingly used as one.
I've gone through [new-gm] and eliminated it from the questions using it as a meta tag. I've targeted questions where it's been used as ...
I stumbled upon the tag trying-new-systems. Sadly it has neither a tag wiki excerpt nor a full tag wiki, and I can't find any discussions about the tag to learn something about the reasoning behind the tag.
It's currently used for four questions:
Fate based minigames in a historic/fantasy rea...
The shooting tag currently has no tag wiki/excerpt. Currently, the tag appears on 2 shadowrun-sr5 questions, 3 questions with the savage-worlds and deadlands-reloaded tags, and 1 question tagged with savage-worlds (with no further specification).
It's not entirely clear to me what the specific p...
The shooting tag currently has no tag wiki/excerpt. Currently, the tag appears on 2 shadowrun-sr5 questions, 3 questions with the savage-worlds and deadlands-reloaded tags, and 1 question tagged with savage-worlds (with no further specification).
It's not entirely clear to me what the specific p...
Recently, there were several questions posted in quick succession regarding the shape water spell in 5e. Shortly after that, a new tag was created for the spell and added to the questions. Subsequently, the tag was added to older questions as well.
Given the previous meta on tagging individual s...
burninate