Timeline for If a question has nothing to do with one tag, or it's tagged wrongly, shouldn't I remove it?
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| Jul 24, 2014 at 0:23 | comment | added | Braiam | @EliahKagan " people disagree with you about that particular example" and many more. I've seen questions with 5 tags (the maximum), yet have low views, no answers, no comments, I came by, remove all tags and add The One™ (most of those cases, the only tag that matters), and in less than, dunno 2 hours it get an answer. And it's not just me talking about theoretical questions, but very real ones. | |
| Jul 24, 2014 at 0:00 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | On rare occasion, yes (if it's something that's supposed to interoperate with Firefox, a Firefox add-on, etc.). But I take your point: for such a question the firefox tag would almost always warrant removal. Is that the extent of what you're saying: people should feel free to remove tags that the entire community wholeheartedly agrees should be removed? Or are you saying people disagree with you about that particular example? It may be that I'm overestimating the amount of controversy at hand, but I'm wondering if this example only covers part of the sort of retagging under discussion. | |
| Jul 23, 2014 at 23:56 | comment | added | Braiam | @EliahKagan for instance, "How to install X that I downloaded with firefox" (tags: firefox), it's firefox what the question is about? | |
| Jul 23, 2014 at 23:43 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | I think the controversy expressed on this issue is over what should be considered the threshold for a tag warranting removal for inappropriateness (or warranting addition for appropriateness). Different members of our community have different ideas about how important, related, narrow, broad, reflecting specific areas of expert interest, unambiguous, concrete, and so forth a tag must be. I don't think anyone would disagree with your claim that anyone who sees a mis-tagged question should retag it. Certainly I agree with that. But it doesn't tell the whole story. What constitutes mis-tagging? | |
| Jul 23, 2014 at 19:58 | history | answered | Braiam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |