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I don't see anything wrong with a way to ban tags, other than it would require more coding from CD devs. Nothing wrong with that - you need to break some eggs if you want an omelette. However, may...
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#1: Initial revision
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matthewsnyder
·
2023-08-08T17:49:36Z (about 1 year ago)
I don't see anything wrong with a way to ban tags, other than it would require more coding from CD devs. Nothing wrong with that - you need to break some eggs if you want an omelette. However, maybe it's actually not necessary? I've seen SO do a thing where they create the over-general tag, and the description begins with "DO NOT USE THIS TAG" in bold. Since SO pops up a card with the first few words of the description when suggesting tag completion, and people unfamiliar enough with the tags to be guessing them are likely to read the popup, that's a good way to indicate discouraged tags. Why would this not work in this case? (I grant that implementation effort aside, it would still be better to have a way of actually forbidding tags)