On StackExchange it’s a general custom to avoid tags that are too general. Skeptics.SE (a community where I spent a lot of time) for example has disallowed “health” as a tag.
Yes, broad terms like “health” are likely to lead to heavily overlapping tags and in general having more specific tags makes it easier for people to look for specific things.
On StackExchange it’s a general custom to avoid tags that are too general. Skeptics.SE (a community where I spent a lot of time) for example has disallowed “health” as a tag.
I think I understand the motivation behind that. They’re too easy to create and end up applying to too many different things? Does that seem right?
A challenge which stark in my mind is how to avoid creating too many heavily overlapping tags, which seems easy to do with higher-level tags.
Yes, broad terms like “health” are likely to lead to heavily overlapping tags and in general having more specific tags makes it easier for people to look for specific things.
Reading a bit back there’s also concern with tags being wrongly applied. In particular the discussion about the health tag has a meta post: https://skeptics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1192/reorganizing-the-medicine-and-health-tags
A good point that “health” is too generalised. I’ve updated my original request.