Posts tagged do-not-use--too-generic

Tags that are too generic don't help create structure in the questions organization.

They are useless because they will be used for wildly different fields and therefore won't help people searching for questions having similar topics.

As an example, consider a hypothetical tag high-speed. What would it be used for? You could reasonably tag questions about high-speed communications, high-speed transistors, high-speed motor drives, high-speed circuits design. Questions in those fields could have some overlap, but most of them will be about unrelated topics.

So, please, avoid creating tags that can have such issues.

When you create a tag you should ask yourself: Will most of the questions tagged with it have something substantial in common?

NOTE: At the moment the tag structure on this site is undergoing some heavy refactoring, so there are still tags that are too generic and that shouldn't be used on new questions. If you go to the tags page, many of them have 0 questions or miss a tag usage guidance text, so this is a strong hint that you shouldn't use them (alas this is not a hard rule, since there are some tags that are OK, but still miss a guidance text, so use your best judgement).