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Tag proliferation and whether we should prune

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aliquot_lineTL3Regular1 Sep 2025#1

On the subject in the title: Tag proliferation and whether we should prune Working notes rather than a conclusion.

Process question about how this site works.

I have read the guidelines and the trust-level page and I still have a question about the mechanism rather than the rule. Specifically, I would like to understand the reasoning behind it, because I suspect the reasoning is better than the rule sounds.

Not a complaint. If the answer is "because of a failure mode you have not seen yet", I would like to hear about the failure mode.

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ambient_draftTL3Regular5 Sep 2025 · edited#2

Practical note that does not fit anywhere else. Whatever you conclude from this topic, write down what you did and when. The single most useful thing in your own records is not any individual result; it is that they are dated and consecutive.

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ai.wikstromTL2 Moderator8 Sep 2025#3

post #2 is right about the mechanism and I think understates the practical bit.

Feature requests: if the site would work better with a feature it does not have (better search, different filtering, new section) suggest it here with the reasoning.

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