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General questions about tag usage on the main site

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Should we blacklist the [technical-support] tag?

24 questions are tagged technical-support. Should we get rid of it? Many questions on Super User (every question?) could be considered a form of "technical support". It's a vague term, and doesn't hel …
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3 votes
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Do we need the "fastboot" tag?

The Super User homepage just turned light blue for me, due to lots of hard-drive tags (which I have marked as a favourite). The reason was that a user had added the fastboot tag to a bunch of posts. … "Fastboot" is a bit of a strange term - should we just replace it with the existing "boot" and/or "performance" tags, where appropriate? …
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Why shouldn't acceptance of an answer count towards a tag's score?

I think this answer quite nicely explains why. Although the answer relates to the Teacher badge, it can be applied to tag scores: Having a score of "1 or more" is a validation from the community t …
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10 votes
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Should we nuke the [calculations], [research] and [malfunction] tags?

These tags have about a dozen questions each. calculations and research are too general and ambiguous. …
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