modified seems ripe for burnination. If community agrees with this suggestion then manual retagging would be a better approach as only 86 questions use this tag.
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3It's crazy how many of those are exact duplicates with different answers.Austin Mullins– Austin Mullins2014-07-05 20:03:59 +00:00Commented Jul 5, 2014 at 20:03
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What's the standard way of "voting" in favor? ;) or am I such n00b that my opinion is not to be counted? (Honestly, that would be fair)Nathan Dortman– Nathan Dortman2014-07-06 23:02:38 +00:00Commented Jul 6, 2014 at 23:02
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@NathanDortman Meta is weird. Voting on the question (burninate-request is like feature-request where voting is for expressing agreement/disagreement). Also comment or answer if you have anything to add.bjb568– bjb5682014-07-07 02:00:49 +00:00Commented Jul 7, 2014 at 2:00
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2If there are indeed just 86 of them, why bother?PM 77-1– PM 77-12014-07-07 02:05:14 +00:00Commented Jul 7, 2014 at 2:05
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12@PM77-1 they are 86 today, could become 860 next year. Some users (specially new users) want to use as many tags as possible. If usage of meta/invalid tags is not stopped during early usage it becomes very tough to remove them later.Aziz Shaikh– Aziz Shaikh2014-07-07 06:09:43 +00:00Commented Jul 7, 2014 at 6:09
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Its slow but the count is going down. Currently at 66Aziz Shaikh– Aziz Shaikh2014-07-07 12:35:01 +00:00Commented Jul 7, 2014 at 12:35
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The trouble with [modified] is that it is used to modify exactly one of the other tags, and you may guess which...Deduplicator– Deduplicator2014-07-08 00:29:07 +00:00Commented Jul 8, 2014 at 0:29
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3The modified tag brings nothing useful to the question, burn it!DavidG– DavidG2014-07-08 09:30:06 +00:00Commented Jul 8, 2014 at 9:30
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I also agree but for different reasons: As a new user I look at it and I see it has no description (Wiki Summary) and that makes it very vague and arguably not helpful. Its hard to see how people can meaningfully use this tag.
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If you can figure out what it's good for (seems to be everything modified / midifiable or stats about that) and the tag is good (that's an emphatic no), all users are welcome to add a good wiki / add a missing one.Deduplicator– Deduplicator2014-07-07 23:49:07 +00:00Commented Jul 7, 2014 at 23:49
I agree as it is also quite narrow. Questions of such usually has similar context and falls into alike behaviour, making questions of such tag similar and mostly duplicates.
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1What do you mean it is narrow? For tags, being specific is not neccessarily a detriment, unless its excessive.Deduplicator– Deduplicator2014-07-07 23:45:12 +00:00Commented Jul 7, 2014 at 23:45
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@Deduplicator While the tag is accurate and specific, it's narrow as questions involving "modified" has similar context, and "modified" is not a dynamic descriptor.Unihedron– Unihedron2014-07-07 23:49:05 +00:00Commented Jul 7, 2014 at 23:49
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1Given that it doesn't have description or wiki at all, I find it difficult to judge whether it is narrow or not. It's ambiguous so for that reason it should go.vhu– vhu2014-07-08 12:40:00 +00:00Commented Jul 8, 2014 at 12:40
obviously get rid of it.
Could there be some sort of automatic system like this:
"if less than (say) 100 uses in more than (say) 24 months, autoroboburninate with no discussion or mention"
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8there a lot of tags that are not active but are not meaningless like this tag.Marco Acierno– Marco Acierno2014-07-08 12:47:21 +00:00Commented Jul 8, 2014 at 12:47