The [tag:fail] tag is fail - how meta is that? And I'm posting this on a meta site. It's meta meta meta. [tag:fail] offers no benefit. It's not likely to be searched, it does not distinguish a question's content or help people find answers or discover questions to contribute to. ![enter image description here][1] [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/xqRlZ.jpg ---------- ## EDIT 1 I argue that [tag:fail] in and of itself isn't enough of a modifier to really help in the search for posts. With a name like `ServerFault` I would bet that half of all posts (at least) would be strong candidates for the [tag:fail] tag. Now _specific_ failure as tags would be awesome. - [tag:503-error] It's real! Click it! - [tag:permission-denied] It's real! Click it! - [tag:error-5] Not real. - [tag:access-denied] It's real! Click it! Is it something of a recurring tag? I don't think it's too terribly recurring, no. After two years we only have 13 survivors. Once a year we could sweep through a list of tags like this and kill them dead. The nicest solution IMO would be to blacklist it. Think we can convince the right people? HAW! HAW HAW! *wipes tear* I'm so crazy sometimes.