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I just made a post about using "company tags" over at Software Development: We know from SO that company name tags were always problematic since: Questions are about products, not companies. Gi...
#2: Post edited
by
Lundin
·
2020-09-04T07:06:52Z (about 4 years ago)
- I just made a [post](https://software.codidact.com/questions/277911) about using "company tags" over at Software Development:
- > 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.
I cross-post here too, since I think this problem is even more serious for an electronics site, given how often silicon companies change names and merge (take Atmel, LT, Freescale, NEC... and so on). A tag like "Atmel" or "Microchip" doesn't add anything, it should be AVR, PIC etc product/technology tags instead.- So I propose 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.
- I just made a [post](https://software.codidact.com/questions/277911) about using "company tags" over at Software Development:
- > 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.
- I cross-post here, since I think this problem is even more serious for an electronics site, given how often silicon companies change names and merge (take Atmel, LT, Freescale, NEC... and so on). A tag like "Atmel" or "Microchip" doesn't add anything, it should be AVR, PIC etc product/technology tags instead.
- So I propose 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.
#1: Initial revision
by
Lundin
·
2020-09-04T07:06:33Z (about 4 years ago)
Getting rid of "company tags" early on
I just made a [post](https://software.codidact.com/questions/277911) about using "company tags" over at Software Development: > 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. I cross-post here too, since I think this problem is even more serious for an electronics site, given how often silicon companies change names and merge (take Atmel, LT, Freescale, NEC... and so on). A tag like "Atmel" or "Microchip" doesn't add anything, it should be AVR, PIC etc product/technology tags instead. So I propose 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.