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Getting rid of "company tags" early on

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So it appears that we've gotten our first "company tag", Apple. We know from SO that company name tags were always problematic since:

  • Questions are about products, not companies.
  • Given that the product tag is present, the company tag doesn't add any relevant information to the question.
  • These aren't technical tags and they are also ambiguous.
  • Companies tend to change name quite often.

So instead of Apple, the relevant products and technologies should be listed: Xcode, macOS etc.

We got a chance to get rid of these tags early, before they accumulate. SO had some monumental "burnination projects " where they tried to get rid of company tags (including Apple). This was a whole lot of work since when they realized that the tags weren't helpful, there were already millions of them.


What I'm asking for here is that we make a policy against using company tags and that moderators & veteran users keep an eye open for such tags and replace them with product tags.

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BobJarvis‭ wrote about 4 years ago · edited about 4 years ago

And in the case where the company and product names are inseparable - I'm thinking specifically of Oracle, where the company name and the name of the RDBMS product are the same - what do you suggest?

Lundin‭ wrote about 4 years ago

@BobJarvis Oracle-DBMS, Oracle-database or similar. What we especially wish to avoid is someone using 2 tags "Oracle" and "RDBMS" when referring to a specific product by that company. Then next up we get "Oracle" + "JavaVM" etc.