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Are there any special need for every character of ASCII/Unicode to have its own tag? If so, I might just add "Master of " to my resumé.

  • No experts.
  • 1,053 questions.
  • 10 followers.
  • No "top user" with more than 2 questions/answers.

The tag only serves as tag fluff at the moment and does not add anything. I can definitely see why this tag was created, but lack the understanding on why it still exists.

EDIT: A query created by rene sheds some light on which tags occur together with this one.

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    Here is a query that indicates which tags go together with space. Might be usefull to see if a better tag exist for a pair... – rene Aug 4 '14 at 8:10
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    Related duplicate on MSE: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/218396/… – rene Aug 4 '14 at 8:29
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    10 followers(?) they must be from Space.SE. – user2629998 Aug 4 '14 at 8:54
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    Seems mostly whitespace, storage space and layout spacing related. That should really be separated, if preserved at all. – Deduplicator Aug 4 '14 at 13:38
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    SPAAAAAAAACE! – Jamal Aug 4 '14 at 19:43
  • I have something that makes you an expert in the sidereal space, know? – Braiam Aug 4 '14 at 19:47
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    So much [space], need to see it all! -excited gasps- – Niet the Dark Absol Aug 4 '14 at 19:59
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    create your own time tag, then you can put "Mater of space & time" on your resume. That may even get you past a keyword search-bot. – user2993456 Aug 4 '14 at 20:00
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    10 followers? So in space, someone would actually hear you scream? – Matt Gibson Aug 4 '14 at 20:22
  • Don't you just love it when a question about free space is tagged free and space instead of storage? – AstroCB Aug 4 '14 at 23:12
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    Burninate the tag, it is a waste of space! – Lundin Aug 5 '14 at 7:55
  • You know what happens if someone destroys also the time, right ? – TLama Aug 5 '14 at 10:34
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    @TLama Divide by zero exception? – Marcus Wigert Aug 5 '14 at 10:35
  • But what will SO grow into if we burninate all space? – PlasmaHH Aug 5 '14 at 10:38
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    This tag is a waste of [space]. – Nisse Engström Feb 28 '18 at 5:27
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I humbly refute your claim of there being "no experts".

Your friendly Space expert
(source: deviantart.net)

But aside from that, I readily agree that we should either burninate the tag, or retag as , or similar tags appropriately.

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  • Now we just need an image of a [space] tag floating around in space. :-) – Jamal Aug 4 '14 at 23:31
  • Burninating space and keeping the two alternates you've suggested might also help reduce the amount of crap ending up getting stuffed into white (an unfortunately named UI testing framework) by people fishing for metatags. – Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight Aug 5 '14 at 1:48
  • @DanNeely Let's work to keep white clean! – Marcus Wigert Aug 5 '14 at 6:39
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    @Jamal Here you go – Marcus Wigert Aug 5 '14 at 8:02
  • @MarcusWigert over the last year I've probably edited the tag out of 50-100 whitespace questions. – Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight Aug 5 '14 at 12:58
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We could synonymize , which has 525 questions as of today, and/or include it in the burninate request as well.

I've found a few classes of question in these tags, each of which has retag possibilities:

  • Code indentation with spaces. These can become , which "is used to organize code by indicating blocks, closures, conditionals, and other constructs. It makes code easier to read, and in some languages is used to handle control flow." A lot of those questions also carry , which needs to be removed because that refers to tabbed user interfaces like this web browser.
  • Other issues related to whitespace in a text editor. These can become .
  • Freeing up space on a storage medium. These can become .
  • Color spaces. These can become .
  • Including space in a web or app layout. These can become or the specific GUI framework.
  • File and path names containing spaces. Shells and other tools that use whitespace as a command delimiter have trouble with these paths, needing escaping or quoting hacks to handle all names correctly.

Perhaps most of the rest can become , which "is often used to refer to any combination of spaces, tabs, and new lines which create blank space between text, either horizontally or vertically."

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