I see the argument. I do think that people downvoting in order to maintain the tag are much more likely to have read the text vs people adding the tag.
But I predict the largest effect is most people don’t look at descriptions they don’t recognize and therefore don’t look at the tag at all, which is a shame because I think a lot of people are interested in the topic. Gut feeling is a 2-5x reduction in how much the tag gets looked at with the unfamiliar name, and I think that matters.
PS: I don’t want to make the decision here, I have enough tagging decisions to make already, so I’m leaving it up to others even though I’m offering some thoughts.
I see the argument. I do think that people downvoting in order to maintain the tag are much more likely to have read the text vs people adding the tag.
But I predict the largest effect is most people don’t look at descriptions they don’t recognize and therefore don’t look at the tag at all, which is a shame because I think a lot of people are interested in the topic. Gut feeling is a 2-5x reduction in how much the tag gets looked at with the unfamiliar name, and I think that matters.
PS: I don’t want to make the decision here, I have enough tagging decisions to make already, so I’m leaving it up to others even though I’m offering some thoughts.
That’s a reasonable point. After this discussion, I think that I do lean towards just renaming it after all.