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Avoid meta-tags

  • If the tag commonly means different things to different people, it's probably a meta-tag. For example, the meaning of the tag [subjective] is, itself, subjective; the same is true for tags like [best-practices] and [beginner]. Best practices to whom? Beginner by what criteria? Use only tags that have a broadly accepted, objective definition.

Common meta tags on Web Applications attempt to describe some aspect of what the person is trying to do. For example, someone might use [delete] when they're asking a question about deleting an account or a message, or [subscribe] when they are asking a question about subscribing to a mailing list. Tags help experts find questions they can answer. No one is an expert on "subscribing", although one might be an expert on .

Use this tag for questions about tags that appear to be meta-tags.

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