I didn't notice it until recently, but apparently we have a  tag. IMHO it's rather pointless; as you may guess,     This tag is for questions about the entire network of Q&amp;A sites that make up the Stack Exchange network.   Well, this entire site is questions (and answers) about the entire network of Q&amp;A sites that make up the Stack Exchange network. I think we can safely say that if a question can't be tagged with  it's off-topic here.  The major problem is that 1.5k questions have this tag, so a manual burninate process will be very cumbersome. There is without a doubt a magic script to remove the tag for all questions (without bumping them), but I can imagine the CMs/devs don't want to run it because it would set a precedent. Still, this might be a case where it's worth it.
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It looks like the  tag (later renamed to ) is a holdover from the pre-split days when this site was called Meta Stack Overflow and also served as the meta site for Stack Overflow (in addition to its current purpose). It was intended to disambiguate questions about the SE network as a whole from questions specifically about Stack Overflow (). It has nearly 1,500 uses, so it's too big to clean up manually. It looks like people are still using it on new questions, and I just saw a suggested edit that only added this tag. Since all questions here should be about Stack Exchange, can we burninate this, the ultimate meta tag?
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The  tag doesn't appear to be very useful.  It's used in a variety of ways (for reading, writing, showing, transforming, compiling, translating, obfuscating, obtaining, ... source code) on 1747 questions right now, and doesn't appear to be adding any classification value to the site.  Can we get rid of it?
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Community FAQ For sites in the Stack Exchange 2.0 network To see a list of commonly used words and phrases, see the . For official guidance from Stack Exchange, visit the . Asking questions                            Answering questions                 Accepting answers        Working with posts  What does it mean when a question or answer is...  ?  ?  ?  ?                                       Comments             Etiquette                         Promotion         Editing and Formatting                                    Tagging                      Reputation, badges, and voting                                         Moderation                                                 Searching and RSS feeds        Accounts, registration and logging in                                     Other                                 ()                                 Site-specific entries Stack Overflow             Meta Stack Exchange       Other     External links           Is your question not part of the FAQ? First look at questions tagged  to see if there is a question not in this index that might have the answer you seek. If you still can't find an answer, then see the following instructions for proposing an FAQ question. How can a question be added to this FAQ?  Ask only the question, stated plainly and simply, in the question body. The answer goes in an answer.  Link back to this index. Paste this at the end of the question:  [Return to FAQ index](/q/7931)   Tag as  and .  When a post seems to have hit a mature state, it will have  added by a moderator.  Flag for a moderator to mark community wiki.  Any FAQ post not yet community wiki should be made into a community wiki.  After the post has the  tag added to it, add a link in the above .
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Since I've a database systems examination in less than 3 hours (from now), I have been browsing Stack Exchange network for questions with normalisation and related tags. Most of the questions are now closed as  or others from the list.  Since, these questions are closed, no users are allowed to post answers to them (unless they are reopened). Why am I, then, allowed the option to protect such questions? Doesn't that beat the entire purpose behind "protecting" a question?
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On some sites, and especially with new users, the format and function of the tagging system might be a bit unclear, so often tags get used incorrectly.  For example, one such issue on Arqade is the tag  - new users often type instead, something like fallout shelter ending up with the tags  and  - both of which (on Arqade) are legitimate tags, for two completely different games, and different again from the intended one.  My current understanding of how the tagging is managed is non-existent, so my suggestion might not even be possible, but what is the likelihood of adding a "service" that might detect this, and suggest the correct tag? maybe something like      Did you mean ?   To perhaps further explain, or refine my idea, some sites offer a tag suggestion, that it picks up from the text in the question (as described above). Another part of that could possibly look at the tags you are using when you ask a question, compare them (possibly by looking at the tag wikis), and suggest an alternative, based on the suggested tags, the tags used, and the similarities between the two.
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Today, I asked my first question on WebApps.SE: . (I'm fairly active on other SE sites.) My question was about a web app that didn't have a tag created for it yet, and since I don't have 300 rep on the site, I wasn't able to create the appropriate tags. Looking over the list of tags already on the site, none of them looked like they would have been appropriate for my question.  What is the right course of action in this situation?
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I was trying to ask a question, but the tag I wanted to use doesn't exist. How can I suggest a new tag?   I want to make this tag, but I think my reputation is not high enough to suggest a tag. How can I still suggest one to Stack Overflow in such a situation?
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I just tried to add a tag for "implementation-defined-behavior" on SO but I couldn't because of the 25 char limit. I had to resort to an abbreviation (), which is rather ugly and to some extent thwarts the purpose of tags, i.e. easy indexing.   Although I acknowledge that too long tag names could be unwieldy, sometimes there are technical terms that cannot be abbreviated in any useful way (especially when there is no widespread acronym).    Could an increase of that limit be considered?     EDIT  This is to respond to all the comments addressed at me that were triggered by the recent news brought up by @Shog9 in .  Shog9 announced that the limit was raised to 35 chars network-wide, thus some people asked me to accept his answer instead of .  TL;DR:  Sorry but, no, I won't accept Shog9's answer. Although I find the change very welcome, I think it is still somehow a sort of a patch for the SE network as it has evolved. A complex system such as SE network is now could well afford another mechanism vetted by high rep users/mods on per-site basis.  More explanation:  I really welcome the change, but this solution would have satisfied me at the time I originally posted my question. After all, 35 chars is probably a reasonable limit for a site like SO, or  where I'm currently active and committed.   At that time, IRRC, the SE network was still very young and there were very few sites on the network that rivaled SO in quality and traffic.  But time has changed since then, and there are sites that have greatly improved and that have the potential of outperforming SO in traffic (after all, there are more people watching TV or practicing mountain walking than programmers out there!).  Given how SE network has evolved, I still think that the right, long term, solution is option #5 in hildred's answer: in short, allow much longer names under the supervision of mods and as a new privilege for high rep users.   Abuse is always a possibility, even with shorter tag names or for other facilities of the sites. I don't see why, apart from some technical reason related to the structure of the system, hildred's solution (or kind of) could not be implemented with the same level of safety/security as other facilities.   There are sites, as it was shown by others, that desperately need a much higher tag length limit, if tags are to be useful for them.   As the name of something increases in length, meaningful abbreviations start to become unintuitive and not unique, hence you cannot expect people to gain any convenience when searching for an abbreviation they don't know about or that they must guess.   In the end, as on of those sites grows, the problem becomes ever worse, because funny abbreviations, with lots of still funnier synonyms, increase, rendering the tag system unreliable and inconvenient.
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There are lots of questions tagged  that don't have a  response.  How do we interpret this? Is it because they are declined by default? We just have to wait for a response (the team is very busy)? Is Jeff the only one that reviews this questions?  I suppose the ones that have negative votes may (or may not) be declined by default, but there are quite a few with some to a lot upvotes that should have an official answer.
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We can see 20 to 30 off-topic questions per day. Most of that questions are programming questions.  Users asking those questions have no time to read the How to ask page; they want the solution for their problems quickly (some may think that Meta Stack Overflow has users with more skills than Stack Overflow).  So, it is not enough to show the How to ask page. When a new user clicks the "Post Your Question" button for the first post, we can show a pop-up asking "Is this a programming question?". If the user clicks yes, then post that question on Stack Overflow (I have no idea about the tags).  It's just a nice idea to reduce the off-topic questions.
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I am, apparently, one of 12 people with the gold tag badge for feature-request and one of 39 people with the gold tag badge for discussion here on meta.se.  I hadn't realized this until I cast a close as duplicate vote, then was shocked (and awed) by the power unleashed. Unicorns came from everywhere and swept the question off into duplicate land so fast I was left breathless!  While I certainly don't mind thinking of myself as a feature request or discussion expert, given that you have to tag every question with at least one of the four tags, bug, feature-request, discussion, support then being an expert in these tags may not mean as much, since they are so general and prevalent. Other gold tag badges would indicate expertise in a specific area, such as badges, or chat, but the required tags are fairly non-specific.  There are only 76 people with , so it's probably not a problem to be fixed immediately, and I'll just have to be more thoughtful about my dupe closing here on meta, but consider removing required tags from these new powers on sites where specific tags are required.
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Say, there's a Java (C#, Javascript, etc) question involving array and tagged only 'java'. Two months ago nobody would lift a finger to add 'arrays' tag: the benefit is tiny, if it exists at all.  Yet, last few days I've been noticing a lot of such edits and not sure what to do. Some users even go on retagging rampage, updating every question they can lay their hands on (you can see them repeatedly in the list of pending edits).  I don't mind those guys getting their lousy 1000 reputation this way (well, only a little), but somehow I feel that the system was intended for slightly more substantial changes.    What would you do in this case? Approve or reject?  PS Some examples from the last few minutes
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Just a few days ago i "eradicated"  manually (i think there were only 8 questions). Can moderators do something about this sort of thing with the click of a button?  Edit: Just noticed some relevant questions, so i'd be more interested in the count threshold at which a retag-request should be filed.
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Look at  edit. I didn't really expect that I would able to suggest adding  tag, but I could!  How is it possible? (seems that usual users can add mod-only tags without moderator help!)  Edit  Oded removed  back :-(
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Just found one question on SO with the tag . Got intrigued and went after explanation. Found empty wiki but used in 458 questions. Edit: 241 179 150 61 50 now.  0 to go!  Some tagged it because of , others relating to , others , etc  I feel this is a confusing and not helpful tag. Can someone clarify it so we can add a wiki to it, or should this tag be burninated?
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Since the split between Meta Stack Exchange and Meta Stack Overflow, my questions were all migrated to the new Meta Stack Exchange site.  However I remarks there is a tag  for those specific questions.   I can understand it was done like this for the migration, but should they not be moved back to the dedicated site Meta Stack Overflow?  I am particularly talking about retag requests, which I guess should be on the dedicated meta.XX for XX site as the tags are different and specific for each sites.
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I tend to use the Stack Exchange app over the weekends to do a bit of general browsing.  One of the sites is Board &amp; Card Games, on which I've set it up, on the website, to hide magic-the-gathering tagged questions.  These still show on the iPad, and given the nature of the site tend to drown out most other questions.  The app already highlights questions tagged with a user's favorite tags.  Could we also have the app hide questions tagged with tags the user has marked for being ignored?