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The tag is very ambiguous and does not well describe the content in the question and I struggle to think of a question where it can work as the only tag for the question. I consider this to be a good example of a meta tag that provide little value - both for users that answer and that asks.

From The Death of Meta Tags:

How can you tell you’re using a meta-tag? It’s easier than you might think.

  • If the tag can’t work as the only tag on a question, it’s probably a meta-tag. Every tag you use should be able to work, more or less, as the only tag on a question.

  • Meta-tags are actually a subset of a larger problem that I usually call dependent tags. These are tags that don’t say anything by themselves – you can’t tell what the question is about unless they’re paired with some other tag

There are situations where people want to use something dynamic in the tags, but there are more specifics for that, e.g.

How ambiguous is ?

Let us see some of the ten latest questions:

  • How to handle landing page with dynamic content for multiple clients? - related to
  • Make new page from input? - related to and navigation
  • Suppose I have malloced a memory of 10 bytes. Can we free 11 bytes? - related to
  • Dynamically update variables for Google Cloud Functions? - related to
  • Can I change the app icon and name after app installation in Flutter for an Android app? - related to
  • Is it possible to change the increment of a range which controls a for loop within the for loop? - related to

Should any action be taken?

My opinion is that tag is used for so many different ambiguous things that it is not useful. If this tag would not exist, I think users would use a more specific tag or omit this aspect of the question - perhaps use a more descriptive tag instead. Any thoughts on actions? Can it be burninated? Cleaned up?

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    I don't see value for this tag. It doesn't seem to add any clarity or useful information to a question. Removing it from a question that has it very likely leaves the same meaning intact. Unless that happens to be the only tag on a question, in which case the question is very likely lacking information already. – VLAZ Jan 6 at 7:19
  • Everything on a computer is dynamic! IMHO a useless tag. – Poul Bak Jan 6 at 11:19
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    @PoulBak Except that dynamic RAM uses static electricity, whereas static RAM disappears without a current source. – Kaz Jan 8 at 1:50
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    That dynamic-keyword tag is really bad. – Leonardo Herrera Jan 8 at 22:26
  • @LeonardoHerrera: I consider it better than c# dynamic. – Joshua Jan 11 at 4:06
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    @Joshua no, it's way worse. It's the equivalent to having tags named if-keyword, var-keyword and so on. – Leonardo Herrera Jan 12 at 1:39
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Burn it to the ground. You missed some cases though

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    I didn't meant to list all case, just to provide some examples of how different topics are posted within this same tag. There are many more, just see the example questions I posted as well :) – Jonas Jan 6 at 21:41
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    @Jonas: It is said the more comprehensive the burnination guidance the better. – Joshua Jan 6 at 21:42
  • 25k questions, that's gonna be a hell of a job! – Didier L Jan 8 at 13:12
  • @DidierL: We can cut that down enormously if we're willing to unleash bots to handle the obvious cases. – Joshua Jan 8 at 16:06
  • You have a small typo. I think you mean dynamic and dynamic-sql instead of dyamic and dyamic-sql. – M-Chen-3 Jan 8 at 21:26

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