Questions tagged [burninate-request]
For proposals to eliminate a tag by removing it from all questions using it (called burnination).
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Reality check: I think [reality-check] is a meta tag. Should we burn it?
I think the reality-check tag is a meta tag. In The Death of Meta Tags, we see:
The reason meta-tags are a problem is that they do not describe the content of the question. They describe some other ...
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[strategy]: burninate or fix?
The strategy tag is in bad shape. It's low volume, only 24 questions (14 open, 10 closed) so this is like cleaning the base boards behind the fridge, but big or small, we clean things when we see they ...
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The [character] tag is in serious need of help, else it may need to be burninated
I found myself browsing through the character tag, and I think it needs a lot of help. I'm not sure it can be saved, but I'll outline the problems I'm seeing and maybe the community can come up with ...
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Should the [pixie] tag be synonymised with the [monsters] tag?
Today I noticed that we have a pixie tag, relating to the D&D creature (mostly about 4e, although there's one 5e question too).
I know we shouldn't create a separate tag for each spell, as ...
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Should we burninate the [shape-water] tag?
Recently, there were several questions posted in quick succession regarding the shape water spell in 5e. Shortly after that, a new tag was created for the spell - shape-water - and added to the ...
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Is there much point in having a [tone] tag?
So, we have a tone tag that currently only has 3 questions.
I feel like it doesn't really add much on top of the tags that those questions already use. It isn't a very frequently used tag and I don'...
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Time to retire the [rules-as-written] tag?
We have recently seen some issues around site users being unclear on how to use the rules-as-written tag and some unpleasantness broke out on the topic. Sadly, this has been happening for more than ...
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Burninate Mimic tag? Do specific monsters need specific tags?
This particular monster gets a tag, but does that mean every monster gets one? And then do we need to worry about editions/RPGs having different uses?
When do we allow system wide monster/spell/...
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I think we should burninate [campaign-settings]
I think we should burninate campaign-settings. It seems to be overloaded and doesn't actually say or do much.
From what I can tell, it gets used in the following situations:
“I am asking about a (non-...
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Destroy [wworld-building]
This tag seems to be created by an error. I've fixed the only question that use this wworld-building with world-building
Let's destroy this tag.
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Merge [ranged-attacks-in-close-combat] with [ranged-attacks]
Can we merge ranged-attacks-in-close-combat to ranged-attacks ?
At this moment we only have one question for it.
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Should we burninate [3rd-party]?
3rd-party just seems to be a reincarnation of 3PP, a tag that was previously burned. This tag seems to be used in the exact same way and have the exact same issues as the previously burned tag.
The ...
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Burninate [players]. The tag, I mean
I've browsed through the players questions and found these ones:
Questions about issues with problem-players
Questions about social aspects of role-playing games or group-dynamics
Question about ...
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Make [specialabilities] not special
This tag has (only) 4 questions and is only recently created (early March).
specialabilities seems useless and should be removed.
Can we burninate this tag?
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Burnination of D&D 4e power type tags
We have some old 4e tags that should probably be cleaned up:
utility-powers (burninated)
daily-powers (burninated)
encounter-powers (burninated)
sustained-powers (preserved at doppelgreener's request)...
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Do we need the [trying-new-systems] tag?
I stumbled upon the tag trying-new-systems. Sadly it has neither a tag wiki excerpt nor a full tag wiki, and I can't find any discussions about the tag to learn something about the reasoning behind ...
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Break [Enchantment] cast
About implementing decisions made about enchantment, per New enchantment tag, not sure about this (A: Yes, it’s an issue and needs to go away.), Should charmed be synonymized with mind-control? (A: No....
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Conjuration spirited away
So per the discussion about conjuration and necromancy, conjuration has been mostly removed from questions.
It was removed from each of the following, and replaced with summoning:
Does a dagger ...
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The [multiple-systems] tag has been burninated
I've just burninated multiple-systems. I'm leaving this post for record-keeping.
It had the following tag wiki excerpt (and no full tag wiki):
For questions that involve multiple rules systems at ...
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Burninate [draconic-bloodline]?
What the draconic-bloodline is about? Is it relevant? Should we burninate it?
If not, can we do a tag wiki on it?
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Let's unload [loaded-dice]
While poking around for interesting tags to fill my favorites I noticed loaded-dice. Currently there are only two questions tagged, and in both circumstances it seems to me that dice would suffice. ...
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Should we burninate [attack] and [damage]?
For consideration:
The attack tag
The damage tag
Do we feel that these have value? Can someone be an expert in those areas?
Note that there was a proposal to burninate [attack] about 4 years ago; ...
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Should we get rid of [3pp]?
Third party publishers themselves are awesome, so their existence isn't in question.
Rather, I'm wondering about the 3pp tag. Ostensibly it's meant to indicate the question's referencing third party ...
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Let's burn [books]!
For some reason we have a books tag. I propose that we burninate it.
It tells you nothing about the content of the question.
You can't be an expert on "RPG books".
There are exactly two questions ...
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The [templates] tag has been burninated/re-tagged away into [character-templates]
Apparently we had a templates tag on these questions:
How many templates can be applied to a summoned creature(s)? (asked September 2016)
Where can I find extra templates for pathfinder? (asked ...
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Do we really need [rulings]?
This question (which is really more about semantics) added the rulings tag, and the author of that question is also the person who added the description to the tag.
I personally feel that this tag is ...
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Should we throw [star-wars] out the airlock?
Anecdotally, I've seen a couple times that it's very easy to tag something with star-wars thinking it's a substitute for the nonexistent ffg-star-wars (see Should there be a 'Parent tag' for ...
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Tag Burninate Suggestion: [adventure]
We need to kill the adventure tag with fire. It's generic to the point of uselessness. Most of the questions that are tagged with it are either asking for recommendations (now considered off-topic), ...
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It's [time] to remove a tag, but are there some good replacements we can make first?
It turns out we have a time tag. This is a bit of a problem. As KRyan put it in a comment:
time seems a bit overloaded to me, since it can refer to both in-game time (how to measure it, how to ...
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The [random] tag is no more
Unless anyone has any objections or wants to salvage/synonym random somehow, I'm going to burninate it in a couple of days. Randomness itself doesn't seem like a useful area of expertise, and the tag ...
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burninate new-gm tag
The new-gm is a meta-tag and should be burninated:
The criteria:
Only Tag: If the tag can’t work as the only tag on a question, it’s probably a meta-tag.
new-gm doesn't really describe any area of ...
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Should the [gm] tag be burninated?
I've been looking through the gm tag, and it looks to me like it's not a particularly useful tag. Here are my thoughts:
The tag is not specific enough, as it doesn't say much about the question.. ...
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Time to burninate the [mechanics] tag
The original discussion of the mechanics tag had many votes against it and no votes for it. Unless there are new arguments to keep it, we should burninate the tag now. We have 161 questions tagged ...
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