Questions tagged [burninate-request]
Requests to have a tag "burninated" (or deleted) from the system. Use in case of uncertainty when requesting discussion, or when the popularity of the tag makes manual retagging followed by automatic culling of 0-question tags prohibitively difficult.
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2 votes
1 answer
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Burninate [heuristic]
The heuristic tag has only one question, no description, no synonyms and no wiki entry. The only question using it has four other tags and a comment pointing out that the use of the word "...
11 votes
2 answers
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.net to the core
An entity-framework-core tag was recently created. Tag asp.net-core was created some 8 months ago. I can see a pattern here: do we really want a -core version of every single .net-related technology ...
4 votes
2 answers
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Should we [join] this tag with the other burninated ones?
I've just again realized that we have a join tag, which corresponds to SQL. It doesn't appear that the questions have anything else in common, either. Do we still need it?
16 votes
2 answers
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if ( [conditions].isGoodTag() ) { return "keep" } else { return "burninate" }
There are currently 246 questions tagged with conditions. It also has 2 synonyms, conditionals and ternary-operator Reference: action = ([ternary-operator] == bad_tag ? “burninate” : “keep”) The tag ...
6 votes
1 answer
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Should we cast away [casting]?
I feel that the casting tag is not a very good tag for a few reasons: It's too broad. Just a quick scan of the questions which use it show languages as varied as C++, Java, C#, SQL, Python, etc. It ...
10 votes
1 answer
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Does the [converting] tag provide any value?
There are 269 questions tagged with converting. Some of the recent ones include base64 datetime formats roman-numerals and numbers-to-words (basically redundant) number bases temperature and other ...
7 votes
2 answers
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Do we really need this [framework]?
I'm questioning the usefulness of the framework tag. There are only 20 questions at the moment and they don't appear to have much in common. Seems like some kind of catch all tag to me. Should we burn ...
9 votes
1 answer
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Size out [code-size-optimization] and [minification]
Related: Tags for optimization, performance, speed Are questions about how to further golf a program on-topic here? Code Review is about writing good, efficient and maintainable code. Not always all ...