There are a lot of questions like What native games are available? and What docks are available?. Do you think we should make a tag for them? The first thing that comes to mind is available-software, but I don't think this is very descriptive. Any ideas?
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It is easy for "list" questions to fail the SE subjective guidelines; before worrying about tags, figure out if we want mindless lists all. Usually these questions would be much better if made more specific; e.g. "My specific needs are X, Y, and Z. I've already tried A, and it didn't work for me because of B. What tools can I use to do C?"
Meta-tagging is explicitly discouraged, and that means there shouldn't be a tag for this "type" of question. Tag the content of the question. E.g. if it's asking about RSS feeds, tag [feeds]; if it's about capturing video, [video]; editing music, [music-editor]; and so forth.
Just because every question has 5 tags doesn't mean we have to fill them up.
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1For example, one user posted 12(!) answers that say nothing except a name and a blog link. Now I know they were trying to help, but since the answers weren't even community wiki, it's an abuse of the rep system and definitely not something that helps Ask Ubuntu.– Roger PateCommented Oct 29, 2010 at 1:10
I like the idea, but would prefer something a tag like software-choices or perhaps software-options.
I've just been lumping them under application
answered Oct 27, 2010 at 13:24
