A few hours ago, a user created the tags spidering and spider. As far as I know, there is no alternative meaning of spider in the information security field (nor, for that matter, in IT).
Shouldn't these tags be merged?
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6In principle you are completely correct, however on consideration it is (as of right now) a useless tag to begin with (as are the other tags created for that question), so I just retagged the question (and closed it, but that is unrelated). Since those tags are now unused, they should get auto-removed by the garbage collector...– AviD ModJun 2, 2016 at 21:49
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I think this question deserves an answer, but AviD already wrote all there is to say in a comment. So I will just copy paste it here:
In principle you are completely correct, however on consideration it is (as of right now) a useless tag to begin with (as are the other tags created for that question), so I just retagged the question (and closed it, but that is unrelated). Since those tags are now unused, they should get auto-removed by the garbage collector...
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I've just found out that both tags have already been removed, so I'm not sure if this question should be closed or deleted (and I don't want to ask a meta-meta-question...), but I still accepted your answer. Jun 15, 2016 at 9:26
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@A.Darwin Maybe you should ask a meta-meta-meta-question about wheather such a question would be appropriate? :-) Anyway, no need to close or delete anything, but perhaps slap a [status-completed] tag on your question?– AndersJun 15, 2016 at 9:36
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@A.Darwin And thanks for raising the issue to begin whit! Everything we can do to avoid a tag mess is good!– AndersJun 15, 2016 at 9:38
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Apparently, only mods can slap the [status-completed] tag. At least, that's what the error message said. Jun 15, 2016 at 9:39