To my mind the [applications tag][1] is fairly useless - there is no clear meaning to it. Some questions should be tagged [software-recommendations][2] instead, but on other questions there is no need for it at all. Perhaps every question about any application should be tagged with it... no? What should we do with it? [1]: http://askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/applications [2]: http://askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/software-recommendation