The case of the vanishing tag

Question

I just noticed an old post to which I added the .subjective tag. That tag is no longer there and the edit history shows no changes made since, so whatever happened to the tag? Might this be a bug?

Answer 1

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/

Answer 2

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/

From this point on, meta-tagging is explicitly discouraged.

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I’m pleased to announce that, as of tonight, we have stormed the castle gates and systematically eradicated the most common meta-tags — [beginner], [subjective], and [best-practices] — from Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User.