Timeline for How do we keep dead tags dead?
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| Sep 4, 2014 at 5:53 | comment | added | gparyani | I think we should blacklist the company tags, but a moderator is disagreeing with me. What do you think? meta.superuser.com/questions/8439/blacklist-the-company-tags | |
| Mar 13, 2013 at 18:33 | comment | added | Shog9 | @Isaac: the user experience for blacklisted tags is pretty bare-bones - it just tells you you can't use it, it doesn't suggest better tags or offer synonyms that might clarify what you're trying to say. So for companies, if that's the obvious tag then there probably needs to be some viable alternatives created before blacklisting. Simply banning the tag doesn't necessarily do anything more than change the appearance of the whack a moles. | |
| Mar 13, 2013 at 18:14 | comment | added | Isaac Rabinovitch | Not sure why it's bad policy to automatically blacklist removed tags, but even if it is, it should be obvious that some tags will always do the Walking Dead thing. Any tag for a company with a wide variety of products, for example. | |
| Mar 11, 2013 at 19:11 | vote | accept | Journeyman GeekMod | ||
| Mar 11, 2013 at 16:46 | history | answered | Shog9 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |