tea.mathoverflow.net - Discussion Feed (The [general] tag) 2018-11-04T13:47:19-08:00 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher Scott Morrison comments on "The [general] tag" (4956) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/359/the-general-tag/?Focus=4956#Comment_4956 2010-04-23T13:56:16-07:00 2018-11-04T13:47:19-08:00 Scott Morrison http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/3/ Yup, I've merged [general] into [tag-removed]. As usual, if you're ever editing a question with the [tag-removed] tag, please remove it! Yup, I've merged [general] into [tag-removed]. As usual, if you're ever editing a question with the [tag-removed] tag, please remove it!

]]> Pete L. Clark comments on "The [general] tag" (4936) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/359/the-general-tag/?Focus=4936#Comment_4936 2010-04-23T10:34:36-07:00 2018-11-04T13:47:19-08:00 Pete L. Clark http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/64/ General makes almost no sense to me as a tag. I can almost see that if you ask a question and know of no other appropriate tag you might be tempted to tag it as "general"...but ...
Putting "general" in with other tags makes precisely zero sense as far as I can see.]]> rwbarton comments on "The [general] tag" (4933) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/359/the-general-tag/?Focus=4933#Comment_4933 2010-04-23T10:18:54-07:00 2018-11-04T13:47:19-08:00 rwbarton http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/6/ The list of questions tagged [general] is rather an odd mix of non-questions, decent questions without appropriate tags, and soft questions of various sorts. I wonder (a) whether the [general] tag ... The list of questions tagged [general] is rather an odd mix of non-questions, decent questions without appropriate tags, and soft questions of various sorts. I wonder (a) whether the [general] tag should exist at all, and (b) whether it is worth doing something about the existing instances of this tag.

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