<h3>First cent:</h3>
<p>I had a short interaction in the comments about the question <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/613150/">Do you lose information when you encode numerical columns with two values?</a> and I didn't respond yet (instantly) to your reply because I am still confused about your question and what it means. (With or without 'general' as tag)</p>
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<p>Instead they could concentrate on a general answer or not answer if they think it would take too long.</p>
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<p>So my thought process is like, ok let me read that post a second time, or a third time again before answering. Often I might be juggling multiple questions at the same time and some end up on the floor and so forgotten if they are not shiny enough. I actually have a quite long backlog of open questions in which I had an interest to answer them, but which were in a way requiring some additional work to get it done and that I could not quickly fix. Questions being posed in a general way and with several unclear definitions, expressions, motivations, background, etc. are among them.</p>
<p>So currently my mind goes like 'not answer' (yet) because it takes too long. But that doesn't mean that you shouldn't try to clarify your question better. Adding a tag 'general' isn't changing people's responses.</p>
<p>While a question might be non-specific, the problem remains that you still need specific examples to easily explain the non-specific issue. Examples are maybe not neccesary, but they are still helpful. You can not replace that helpfulness with a tag 'general'.</p>
<h3>Second cent:</h3>
<p>Tags are mainly metadata that help to easily classify questions. The purpose of the classification can be variable, but functions like communicating how one would wish the question to be received or how it should be interpreted might be far stretched (one tag that has such a function is <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/self-study" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;self-study&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;self-study&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-self-study-tooltip-container">self-study</a> and it is a bit of an abuse of tags). #Dont-take-this-the-wrong-way #yes-that-is-an-ironic-hashtag #this-aswell-and-showing-how-tags-shouldnt-be-abused</p>
