Questions tagged [burninate-request]
Requests to have a tag "burninated" (or deleted) from the system. Use in case of uncertainty when requesting discussion, or when the popularity of the tag makes manual retagging followed by automatic culling of 0-question tags prohibitively difficult.
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Burninate [heuristic]
The heuristic tag has only one question, no description, no synonyms and no wiki entry. The only question using it has four other tags and a comment pointing out that the use of the word "...
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Shall we keep shelling out questions for [shell]?
We have a shell tag, but we also have more specific shell tags such as sh and bash. Many tags with shell also include these specific tags, so it almost looks redundant. I could see that there are ...
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.net to the core
An entity-framework-core tag was recently created. Tag asp.net-core was created some 8 months ago.
I can see a pattern here: do we really want a -core version of every single .net-related technology ...
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Would burninating [performance] bring good performance?
The performance tag has over 5000 questions which is also the master tag of 4 other tags. It can also be considered a "meta tag", much like previously burninated tags such as [naming] and [...
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Should we [join] this tag with the other burninated ones?
I've just again realized that we have a join tag, which corresponds to SQL. It doesn't appear that the questions have anything else in common, either. Do we still need it?
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Normalizing [data-structures]?
I feel that something should be done about data-structures. For instance, this question appears to include the tag just because it uses data structures. Also, we already have many specific tags for ...
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if ( [conditions].isGoodTag() ) { return "keep" } else { return "burninate" }
There are currently 246 questions tagged with conditions. It also has 2 synonyms, conditionals and ternary-operator
Reference: action = ([ternary-operator] == bad_tag ? “burninate” : “keep”)
The tag ...
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for (post in [loop]) { post.tagMoreAppropriately(); }
The loop tag is generic... like, very, very generic. Generic as in, if your code doesn't loop somewhere, it's probably not a computer program. Hence I'm nominating the loop tag for burnination.
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Should we cast away [casting]?
I feel that the casting tag is not a very good tag for a few reasons:
It's too broad. Just a quick scan of the questions which use it show languages as varied as C++, Java, C#, SQL, Python, etc.
It ...
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Should we put [scope] down our scope?
Currently, the main-site scope tag is used to tag questions seeking specific advice about code scope. However, as this is a language-agnostic feature, it should be assumed to be a potential part of a ...
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Does the [converting] tag provide any value?
There are 269 questions tagged with converting. Some of the recent ones include
base64
datetime formats
roman-numerals and numbers-to-words (basically redundant)
number bases
temperature and other ...
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Do we even need to keep following [meta-tag:site-policy]?
I recently stumbled across site-policy.
The tag has:
77 questions
of which 10 are tagged faq
and of which 11 are tagged specific-question
no tag wiki
the following tag excerpt:
This tag is for ...
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Do we really need this [framework]?
I'm questioning the usefulness of the framework tag. There are only 20 questions at the moment and they don't appear to have much in common. Seems like some kind of catch all tag to me. Should we burn ...
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Burn the [beginner]s
beginner is unquestionably a meta tag, and yet, we continue to allow it to exist on Code Review.
Despite communicating no information at all about the contents of the question, beginner is the 7th ...
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Size out [code-size-optimization] and [minification]
Related:
Tags for optimization, performance, speed
Are questions about how to further golf a program on-topic here?
Code Review is about writing good, efficient and maintainable code. Not always all ...
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