Any opinions on removing the advice tag?
There are currently 34 questions tagged advice. This tag doesn't seem very helpful.
Inspired by: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/
Any opinions on removing the advice tag?
There are currently 34 questions tagged advice. This tag doesn't seem very helpful.
Inspired by: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/
With upvotes, but no answers. I mentioned it on the chat room and after discussion, went ahead and did this. No more advice tag.
The tag removal via a fake merge mechanic that Chris W. Rea mentioned doesn't work anymore (by design, although the error we're showing is terrible), but I went ahead and removed and blacklisted the advice tag, so you should have no more trouble with it.
As a result of the removal, there are now a few questions in the untagged "tag" that should be retagged or removed, depending on what's more useful for a given question.
Since the advice tag was recreated shortly after this question was posted and 25 questions are now tagged with it, I'll add my opinion.
I don't think the tag is necessary because if a question is asking for advice about a specific situation, I don't see how the answers will differ enough from answers to other types of questions that aren't asking for advice.
Furthermore, the purpose of tags is to facilitate searching (I think), and I can't picture someone searching for "all questions asking for advice." I imagine someone would search tags/keywords related to their specific situation instead.
Incidentally, I don't think we need the advice tag on meta either. If someone needs advice on how to use a specific aspect of the site, there are other tags for that. I presume it will be trimmed automatically after a certain amount of time has elapsed because it's only present on one question.