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Assessing the 5 tag limit
We currently have a limit of 5 tags per question.
Should we keep this the same or would any changes be of benefit?
For example:
- Should the limit be higher or lower?
- Should there be different limits for different contexts:
- Different communities?
- Different categories?
- Different post types?
- Is there a need for a limit?
I think this also depends on the community, so I suggest changing the limit at the community level instead of having a l …
9mo ago
The tag limit is a trade off. If you allow many tags, you have more freedom when tagging, but also you must work harder …
9mo ago
Such a tag limit seems low to me, though I can't think of any specific cases in which more than 5 tags would apply. Howe …
9mo ago
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I think this also depends on the community, so I suggest changing the limit at the community level instead of having a limit across all the Codidact communities.
For the specific case of Software Development, the five-tag limit seems to work fine. If we aim to have meaningful tags as shown by Lundin in this post, having a rather low tag limit is actually useful because we want to avoid:
- generic tags
- tags about the question content
- company names in tags
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