###I don't think either of those tags are useful.

We want tags to be used consistently to define the subject of questions, IMHO. The usage guidance for [tag:record]  currently says:

> Questions about software for recording audio and video with Ubuntu. 

Of the 98 questions with this tag, only [this one](https://askubuntu.com/questions/428361/why-doesnt-ssh-record-failed-access-in-var-log-btmp) is **not** about recording audio, video or the desktop, or some user action. So I think there is no use for a tag [tag:record] with a generic meaning or technical meaning as in a database record (disagreeing with [Lorenzo's answer](https://meta.askubuntu.com/a/16113/527764)).

All of the questions in [tag:recording] seem to be, once again, about recording audio, video, or the desktop.

I don't think these three topics are the same. We already have a tag [tag:audio-recording] which is a subset of [tag:recording]. Desktop recording seems to me to be a totally distinct topic.

We have two separate tags being used for exactly the same purpose, failing to distinguish between three topics.

**My proposal is that we create two new tags, leaving these:** 

[tag:audio-recording] [tag:video-recording] [tag:desktop-recording]

And re-tag all of the posts (124 in total) appropriately (yes I am very willing to do this myself) to remove both [tag:record] and [tag:recording].