Harald Hanche-Olsen comments on "Any harm in tags that may not be quite right?" (6038)

Harald Hanche-Olsen — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:53:37 -0700

The main use of tags is to be an aid for people to find previous questions that they might be interested in. Preferably before they go and ask the same question all over again … If a few questions have somewhat inappropriate tags, it's not a big deal: They just result in slightly more effort needed to filter search results. It is more serious if questions are missing relevant tags. Then they may not be seen at all by those who look for them.

Timothy Chow comments on "Any harm in tags that may not be quite right?" (6035)

Timothy Chow — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:48:41 -0700

Kristal Cantwell added a combinatorial-game-theory tag to my recent question "Do there exist chess positions that require exponentially many moves to reach?" I intentionally left out that tag because the problem, strictly speaking, has nothing to do with the field known as combinatorial game theory. However, it's a problem in combinatorics, and a problem about games, and the kind of people who enjoy combinatorial game theory would probably enjoy this question. OK to keep the tag, or will this kind of sloppiness come back to bite us in the long run? I guess I don't completely understand what the tags are used for.

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