<p>At present, the reputation threshold for creating new tags is at 300, making this accessible for relatively new and inexperienced users. A lot of new tags created now (2022) are unnecessary, or simply misspellings or new names for existing tags. One of the last ones I nuked was <em>stoch</em>.</p>
<p>A low threshold was necessary when the site was young, to populate the tags! but those days seem past. Some sites have increased the threshold, like</p>
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<li><p>Math SE (1000)</p>
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<li><p>SO (1500)</p>
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<p>while some others keep it at 300 (Tex/LaTeX, MathOverflow).</p>
<p>I propose we ask SE to increase the threshold to 1500.</p>
