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The tag is used in at least two different contexts , to do with and - could we get rid of the silent tag, and replace them with seperate, more accurate tags?

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So, you're not asking for a burnination, but community opinion on a manual retagging? – Daniel Beck♦ Feb 8 '12 at 11:22
pretty much. I think. The tag as is is utterly unclear, and would be better off split. once its retagged though, the tag needs to be burninated. – Journeyman Geek Feb 8 '12 at 11:28
Just go ahead and retag these few questions, then we can call in the airstrike. – Daniel Beck♦ Feb 8 '12 at 11:29

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A proper burnination would prevent it from reappearing though. – Daniel Beck♦ Feb 8 '12 at 11:57
@DanielBeck system'll auto delete the tag in few hours – Sathya♦ Feb 8 '12 at 11:58
Yep and tomorrow someone else will add it to a question. We really should blacklist it. – Daniel Beck♦ Feb 8 '12 at 11:59
well the request is for burnination aka tag delete, not blacklist @DanielBeck – Sathya♦ Feb 8 '12 at 12:00
What possible use is deletion if the tag just reappears days later? – Daniel Beck♦ Feb 8 '12 at 12:19
In the long term, given the fact that we still have so many stupid tags, none really. I guess it would make sense to request to blacklist the really stupid ones right away instead of only removing them. So maybe we should clarify this for every new [retag-request], like you just did here. @DanielBeck – slhck♦ Feb 8 '12 at 13:10
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@DanielBeck tag creation requires a bit of rep. – Sathya♦ Feb 8 '12 at 13:12
… but we still find useless tags every week? Somebody with enough rep must have created them. – slhck♦ Feb 8 '12 at 14:17
@Sathya If that were an effective requirement, we wouldn't have all that crap around, especially not tags that were just deleted. [apple] comes to mind. – Daniel Beck♦ Feb 8 '12 at 14:56
@DanielBeck regardless of rep, people do stupid stuff. Also, feel free to raise a blacklist request. Mods can't blacklist and devs have made it clear in the past that blacklists are rarely applied – Sathya♦ Feb 8 '12 at 14:58

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