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Meta Getting rid of "company tags" early on

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...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Lundin‭

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#2: Post edited by user avatar Lundin‭ · 2020-09-04T07:06:52Z (over 3 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 user avatar Lundin‭ · 2020-09-04T07:06:33Z (over 3 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.