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Tags I have found:

Suggest I do, we clean-up these tags. Burnination even. Experts there cannot exist. Usefulness they offer us not (missing are the the excerpt and wiki for all tags).

Reconnaissance results (total of all tags they are),

  • 340 posts,
  • 2% closed,
  • 50% a score of <0 have.

In all seriousness, I'm suggesting we clean-up/re-tag (or even burninate) these tags, as & are rather generic and useless. Such posts can be retagged with more meaningful tags, even if that means creating new ones (e.g, /) as others have suggested.

seems to have a genuine use for: 3D rendering, openGL, 2D graphics etc, so maybe only a clean-up would be necessary (as the tag is being used for other purposes). Some posts may need to be retagged with .

So, generally speaking,

For the few remaining posts, (as mentioned previously) we could simply create new tags. So, what does the Jedi Council have to say about the matter?

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    dark seems to be for dark gdk, which is a .net and C++ library. It should be renamed to [dark-gdk] Commented Jul 18, 2014 at 12:14
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    @InfiniteRecursion Hmm, but as slugster pointed out, the tag also seems to be for the Wix toolset...
    – Sam
    Commented Jul 18, 2014 at 12:16
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    Yes, [dark] should be replaced with specific tags like [wix-dark] and [dark-gdk] @Sam Commented Jul 18, 2014 at 12:17
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    But... I'm an expert in the field of the darken image processor: it changes every pixel to black D: Commented Jul 19, 2014 at 0:59
  • @mypal125 I do it to both computers and humans... D:
    – bjb568
    Commented Jul 20, 2014 at 1:47
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    Are you sure they lied about the cookies? Commented Jul 20, 2014 at 1:55
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    @PaulDraper Well, it's your choice if you want join them or not (and find out for yourself). Just remember we have cookies too.
    – Sam
    Commented Jul 20, 2014 at 11:08
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    I predict soon someone coming and posting something similar for background colours Commented Jul 21, 2014 at 6:23
  • What's the right tag for ambient light sensors?
    – Ben Voigt
    Commented Jul 24, 2014 at 21:37
  • @BenVoigt "light sensors" of what sort?
    – Sam
    Commented Jul 24, 2014 at 21:39
  • @Sam: Ambient light sensors are those things mobile devices have to discover whether they're in a dark room/well-lit room/sunlight and adjust the screen accordingly (among other interesting things to do with the data).
    – Ben Voigt
    Commented Jul 24, 2014 at 21:42
  • @BenVoigt Ah right. Well I guess it would be the light-sensor tag.
    – Sam
    Commented Jul 24, 2014 at 21:43
  • You might add that to the question since it's likely some questions tagged light will need to be retagged to light-sensor
    – Ben Voigt
    Commented Jul 24, 2014 at 21:44

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You mention graphics/rendering/OpenGL as a possible legitimate use of . A more specific tag for that use is . So if is used for that purpose, I would suggest to retag with .

To add to it, there's also , which has no description, but seems to be used almost exclusively in the graphics domain. My proposal would be to declare it a synonym of . Or to get rid of it, and re-tag the current uses with .

"Lighting" is a widely used term in the graphics domain, and I'm not aware of any other common uses. Well, maybe in interior decorating, but that's not really on topic for SO. So it seems like a specific enough tag name, and it already has a description that matches that use.

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  • How about shadow to be either a synonym for this, or linked to it? Similar in spirit, and should take care of the dark. Commented Jul 21, 2014 at 6:25
  • Rendering shadows is not the same as lighting. Lighting is much more general. Shadows can be a part of lighting calculations, but lighting is often done without considering shadows. Commented Jul 21, 2014 at 7:20
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No, you should not burninate the tags.

Clean them up yes you may. But burninate must you not.

Why?

Because Light and Dark are two of the tools that are part of the Wix toolset. Of course that still leaves (AFAIK there is no tool or product called that, but y'know I could be wrong on that one).

This is a regular occurrence where legitimate tags get misused for other things. The right thing to do here is to retag where necessary.

To be honest I don't think replacing the tag on non-Wix posts would be appropriate either as they can be the name or description of a process for which there are established methods or algorithms. Gui/colors/themes are not really good replacement tags for or .

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    Of the 52 questions tagged dark, only 2 seem to be about Wix. From a quick scan of the active questions, the tag is mostly used to indicate something is or should be in a dark color, mostly UI-themes, color schemes etc. IMO the tag should burn and be blacklisted; if a tag for Wix dark is required, it should be called wix-dark and not dark.
    – l4mpi
    Commented Jul 18, 2014 at 11:48
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    Lol, the newest one was posted a year ago (the other one was 3 years ago). And both have a score of 0. Not sure if it's even worth creating a [wix-dark] tag...
    – Sam
    Commented Jul 18, 2014 at 12:04

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