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I think is meta-tag (as described by Jeff in a blog post ) and should be burninated

[Note by MTibbits]: Personally I don't think this is a meta tag -- I added links and edited trying to keep the OP's intent -- but I still think it should be removed. I think is ambiguous and should be removed to avoid many-to-one tag synonym relationships: e.g. ++=. See my answer below.

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To your pitchforks! Seriously, [id] can arguably be a legitimate standalone tag. After all, there's no [html-id] tag (yet). –  Frédéric Hamidi Aug 7 '11 at 21:06
Why do you want to do such a thing? :-( Think about all those 729 questions that will miss the tag. –  user162697 Aug 7 '11 at 21:10
@Siva most of them don't lose anything without this tag –  RiaD Aug 7 '11 at 21:15
@Siva, sorry but It's hard to me to differ serios thing from jokes in english –  RiaD Aug 7 '11 at 21:18
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Agreed, it is now burninated.

tag burninated

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When I began this answer, I thought it was reasonable to keep this tag. There are times when is the fundamental concept of a question. For those other times, e.g. when a question would be tagged with:

or even:

That these more specific contexts would be identified by the tag suggestion mechanism and the users would be more likely to realize: + = .

However, if you search the tags and type in 'user', the tag appears so far down that it wouldn't be suggested. I believe, at present, the dialog only shows six options.

I think this is a case of ++ = to a more specific tag. At present, the synonym system is not designed to support/handle many-to-one relationships.

Hence, I now too think this tag should be deleted. Should a user wish to use only, they still would have the option of or which are quite contextually similar.

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You would have to first identify each variation of the tag and fix it, before you could remove the [id] tag. –  Robert Harvey Aug 8 '11 at 15:34
Yep. It's will be a lot of work - Something I certainly wouldn't do without unanimous/blessed approval. –  M. Tibbits Aug 8 '11 at 15:44
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The one thing that makes me vote for burnination is this:

Is the tag likely to be searched?

That's my one rule for tag validity.

User case 1: I'm an expert at [some technology|concept], I want to look at [some technology|concept] questions.

User case 2: I have a question regarding [some technology|concept], was this question asked before?

In my mind, I see no reason why people would want to look-up questions, nor any possibility of there being an expert.

Burninate (or combine with session/user) it is.

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No, but you might search for [session]+[id] –  Robert Harvey Aug 8 '11 at 15:35
@RobertHarvey Then the tag should be [sessionid] or [session-id]. –  MPelletier Aug 8 '11 at 15:37
While there's been a recent push towards more specific tags, it's not at all self-evident to the average user that [sessionid] is better than [session] [id]. A search for [session]+[id] seems perfectly reasonable. –  Robert Harvey Aug 8 '11 at 15:38
@RobertHarvey But it becomes a non-issue when tags that can be misleading are no longer available, especially to new users who don't have tag creation rights. –  MPelletier Aug 8 '11 at 15:46
True, but if you typed in "session id" it would convert to "[session] id" and the appropriate questions would most likely still show up. –  M. Tibbits Aug 8 '11 at 15:47
I keep tabs on certain tags with RSS feeds to prevent them from propagating. Among others, my, which is a valid Perl keyword, but is often used for MySQL, which users will enter as "my sql". –  MPelletier Aug 8 '11 at 15:47
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No, use suggests its used in combination with very specific things, like How can i get the resource id of an image if I know its name?, which uses android image resources id tags.

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Isn't that just an indication that people don't know how to tag? For example, there are questions tagged [session] and [id] when there's a perfectly good [sessionid] tag available. –  Wooble Aug 8 '11 at 3:30
While there's been a recent push towards more specific tags, it's not at all self-evident to the average user that [sessionid] is better than [session] [id]. Also, [sessionid], by convention, should have a dash in it, i.e. [session-id]. –  Robert Harvey Aug 8 '11 at 15:37
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