*sigh* In *general* the convention is to ask first before doing a mass tag. *As a moderator* even, when I do bulk retag or 

 Its a meta tag anyway and doesn't belong. I'll see about trickle in editing these out, flooding the front page on a weekend, or otherwise monkeywrenching the tag.

Mass edits are generally not ok - and feel free to flag future instances of this for attention, it seems we missed that 

Annoyingly we've not done a tag cleanup in so long I don't remember the do not use boilerplate we used to have, I'll go dig it up later, but it seems appropriate here 

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So *actions*. 

I'll be going through the [closed but not deleted posts][1] and reviewing what I can delete. This should let us take a bite out of the problem without affecting the front page too much. There's probably a need for an *organised* cleanup here. I've some ideas but I need to review what we did before, and it'll be a *little* more involved than the usual 'simple' retagging  


  [1]: https://superuser.com/search?page=10&tab=Relevance&pagesize=50&q=%5Bsoftware-rec%5D%20closed%3Ayes&searchOn=3