<p>Prompted by the "new tag suggestions" question, I wondered about</p>

<p>"guidance on tagging principles: should we aim for more generality, thereby associating each tag with more threads and enriching their semantic web, or aim for more specificity, which risks "Balkanizing" otherwise related ideas?"</p>

<p>I suspect general tags are better, because in appropriate combinations they can characterize any question precisely while linking it quite broadly with other questions.  What is the community's opinion?</p>
