@Catija It's back to the blogs now. Forums are so 2010
@rene To be fair, if a tag has 10 questions only, I don't see much point in wasting a whole meta thread and a whole lot of time on deciding to burninate it
I believe a meta discussion for a barely used tag with no clear purpose, where no reasonable person would disagree with the removal is just overkill and a waste of time.
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog Careful you don't accidentally call people unreasonable. Saying a tag has no clear purpose is fine; assuming that there are no reasonable disagreements is likely to start fights.
I don't really have an issue with small, useless tags being nuked after a chat discussion. Anything with more than 20 questions with the tag being properly used probably needs a post, though...
(sorry, stepped away) my issue with that is there's no discussion of it. No chance for someone to disagree, if anyone can just freely go out there and burninate a new tag that hasn't been used often because they feel it is unnecessary. That's a lot of power in 1 person without any checks, doing something that isn't easily undone. Unnecessary tags isn't a problem that warrants swift action, it's usually not a real problem, just a minor annoyance.
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There's no reason we can't just go through the same process as any other burnination with them.
Personally i'm more annoyed by the front page being filled with interesting posts that end up being years old than i am with an irrelevant tag on said old post
@KevinB 1) The unnecessary part maybe got too much of an emphasis. The tags were vague or meta or SOME form of bad, other than not having been used for months, and 2) Well yeah, I guess the pace could use some adjusting. Front page floods are never fun
As an example, block-user was recently cleared out, but because there's no discussion on it, who knows what it was replaced with so we can look back at those questions to see whether or not it was warranted
But the alternative I see isn't fun either: Normal meta regs get bored of tag discussions about an unimportant tag way too easily to even get the third burnination done.
