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On SO, the tag seems to be used for two different things:

  1. Discussing the using keyword in C# and a few other related issues
  2. Not knowing what the tag field is for; e.g. questions "tagged" [validation] [using] [struts2], or [printing] [list] [using] [haskell].

The second use of seems to be less than useful. Should I go in and remove the offending tag in case 2, or am I nitpicking?

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closed as off-topic by Sompuperoo, Al E., Shadow Wizard, Martijn Pieters, nicael Dec 7 at 12:00



Yes, you should. –  perbert Feb 23 '10 at 19:52

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Should I go in and remove the offending tag in case 2

Yes, please!

am I nitpicking?

Nits are annoying, nasty creatures that are to be dealt with harshly. So yes, and it's a good thing.

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Anytime you see that the OP doesn't understand tags (random sentence entered as tags), then please fix it.

The help about tags talks about "Combine multiple words into single-words", but there are clearly some non English-speakers who don't know what that means.

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Yes, you should, and while you are at it, if you had the rep, put the text into shape.

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