Timeline for Can we increase the minimum reputation requirement for creating new tags?
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| Sep 26, 2012 at 4:34 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | @jokerdino Of the 12 tags shown in your question, 10 of them convey valuable information and can also probably be made synonyms for other tags. Of the other two, one is pretty worthless (broken), and one is automatically generated by the system (untagged). | |
| Sep 26, 2012 at 2:07 | comment | added | jokerdino Mod | The problem is not with the handling of the bad tags but the mere existence of them. No matter how easy you make it for the high rep users to create tag synonyms, you will never really make much of a dent because someone has to go through the new tags to see if they are going to stay or not. And that takes time, which can be spent doing something else much more productive. I spent time removing tags as they come and I don't think we are ever going to win this battle with the way things work currently. | |
| Sep 26, 2012 at 1:58 | comment | added | jokerdino Mod | (Re:Point 2) It's just a matter of time for a bad meta tag to explode. And no, blacklisting is a PITA and involves a huge roll of red tape and several level of persuading between the mods and the SE team. And I am not going to retag all 653 of them either. | |
| Sep 26, 2012 at 1:52 | comment | added | jokerdino Mod | (Re:Point 1) I am afraid most of the time, the bad tags has to go away from the system altogether. Tags like stutter, break, dies, occasionally, update-struck and many others don't really seem to have any positive purpose and you can't satisfactorily make it a synonym of another existing tag. If you are, then that tag should probably be going away too. When I say bad tag, I really really mean it. | |
| Sep 26, 2012 at 1:40 | comment | added | jokerdino Mod | (Re:Point 4) They might not make Ask Ubuntu an exception right now but given how SO has a different set of requirements, I do strongly think they will consider it if we make a really strong case. In any case, it is just a suggestion and I am glad there isn't much of a negative feedback so far, which also mean the community (or at least the expressive part) is pretty well welcoming of this possible change. | |
| Sep 26, 2012 at 1:35 | comment | added | jokerdino Mod | (Re:Point 3) I would have wanted to give evidence but I think it is tantamount to naming so I left that bit out intentionally. This suggestion doesn't come after a random thought in the middle of the night. I have been keeping a close eye on the new tags tab for more than a couple of months now and more often than not (like 9 out of 10 times), very bad tags were because of users that have less than 1k rep. And not so bad tags created aren't greatly used either and have no more than a couple of questions tagged with them. | |
| Sep 25, 2012 at 19:51 | history | answered | Eliah Kagan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |