The answer to this question is "yes".
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Yeah, generally they aren't in favour of releasing anything that you can't get through the site itself. Of course in this case, you can probably figure it out anyway from the data available, it's just much more problematic than if it was more easily presented.
It is unlikely we will do this [that is, show who created a tag] due to the taxonomist badge gaming concerns outlined above.. and over and over and over in about fifty other posts on meta.
I can't see anything good come of making this information public.
Aye. I think that the logic is kind of bad, since you can at least gauge how likely it is that you created a tag by the fact that it doesn't appear in the tag autocomplete.
That probably won't stop the status-declined cannon, though. :P
Anonymous
@TimStone What's this? Tags you've created won't show up in the autocomplete?
Oh, no. Just that if you're looking to create a tag that doesn't exist, you know it doesn't exist by it not showing up.
I don't know how tags that once existed but no longer exist behave in this regard, as far as creatorship goes, so it might not directly guarantee you're the tag creator.
But if someone were that inclined to get taxonomist, I think they could at least tip the odd in their favour.
Anonymous
Okay. I'm just curious for supportting people on meta; no personal need for this info.
Yeah, I was just remarking that the taxonomist gaming reasoning Jeff gave seems a bit flawed, since the lack of this information doesn't necessarily prohibit gaming (I mean, you could even just do a tag search for that matter).
Anonymous
@TimStone I agree, the only people it seems to impair are those who've lost the "ownership" of a tag for unusual reasons.
The answer to this question is "yes".
The question here used to have an accepted answer consisting entirely of the text
INCORRECT ANSWER REMOVED (if the OP unaccepts it, I'll delete it)
but this has now been successfully deleted by three 20K+ users.
It is unlikely we will do this [that is, show who created a tag] due to the taxonomist badge gaming concerns outlined above.. and over and over and over in about fifty other posts on meta.
I can't see anything good come of making this information public.
