There are a lot of questions now that could be tagged: "sudoku", "sorting", "maze" etc.
Should we tag them?
What is the current policy on tagging? Tag everything that appears thrice or more? Tag at-will?
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We want an end state where we get things tagged by
- Type of game/puzzle/challenge (i.e code-golf, code-challenge, and other that seem good (I have an irrational prejudice against code-bowling, but if we must...))
- Rule variations (this is language-agnostic and/or language specific tags would live)
General topics to help users pick posts in domains that interest them. Things like:
- Joey's maze
- ascii-art for things like the many ascii figure problems LiraNuna posted on Stack Overflow
- word-puzzle for things like crossword and hangman
- pattern-matching for regexp engines and the current glob question
- simulation
- game
- data-structure for things like Martin's binary tree question
- path-finding
- optimization
- and so on
The biggest problem is that until we've been at this for a while we won't know what the categories are. So, we should encourage pretty free tagging for a while, and then start using the synonym mechanism and editing to bring the outliers into conformance with the practice that develops.
Edit: I've started a campaign to add descriptive tags to as many just-tagged-code-golf type questions as I can. Help would be appreciated, as would review of my tagging choices.
In this process, I have already invented three new tags. Those would be particularly good candidates for review.
answered Feb 4, 2011 at 0:34
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I think as long as a tag describes a class of problems we can leave them. maze for example could mean maze-generation, maze-solving in the general case as well as more specific tasks and thus (in future) could be a useful tag.
