Timeline for Tag cleanup 2023
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| Oct 7, 2023 at 1:09 | comment | added | user1271772 No more free time | It might be a hyper-niche tag, but I don't see a problem with keeping it. It's a sub-field of its own, and there's 4 people "watching" the tag. One of the things that I think is most important when considering whether or not to delete a tag, is the number of people "watching" the tag. Those people could also be subscribed to get emails whenever a new question is asked with that tag. If John Watrous is "watching" the quantum-money tag, we don't want him to suddenly stop getting emails one day, just because we suddenly deleted the tag. | |
| Oct 7, 2023 at 1:03 | comment | added | Mark Spinelli | Yeah certainly! I was just excited five years ago because I finally understood the Quantum Money from Knots paper well enough to ask a question that John Watrous of all people answered so I thought I'd be hot stuff to propose the tag. But I totally agree that it's a pretty hyper-niche tag either way. | |
| Oct 7, 2023 at 0:53 | comment | added | user1271772 No more free time | Okay, it makes a lot more sense now that I see it in the context of that question! Yea quantum-money still has only 9 questions (but 4 watchers!), and cryptocurrency only has 13 questions (and 1 watcher). Cryptography on the other hand has 123 questions and 12 watchers. I don't see a huge problem with keeping all three tags, but also, tags with only a dozen or so questions in the span of 5 years will probably never get to the stage where they will help much for moderation purposes (for example people that earn the gold badge on a particular tag, can hammer close questions with that tag). | |
| Oct 7, 2023 at 0:26 | history | edited | Mark Spinelli | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 6, 2023 at 23:41 | comment | added | Mark Spinelli | @user1271772 sorry for not pinging you! I read your answer here as suggesting that! | |
| Oct 6, 2023 at 11:45 | comment | added | user1271772 No more free time | When did I suggest that? Also, the @ping function works in comments and chat, not in questions and answers, so I didn't get a notification about this ping :) | |
| Sep 19, 2023 at 20:25 | history | answered | Mark Spinelli | CC BY-SA 4.0 |