Tagging for recommendations

Question

There's already been some discussion on whether recommendation questions should be allowed. I don't think a conclusion has been reached, but there seems to be tentative support for these questions as long as they are specific and relevant. I think this question is a good example.

So, assuming some recommendation questions are allowed to remain on the site, how should they be tagged?

• StackOverflow has a recommendation tag
• WebApps has *-rec tags for software, webapps, and other categories
• SuperUser has software-rec, hardware-rec, product-rec, and https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/service-rec

Any thoughts on how we should tag these question here on ARP?

Answer 1

I can't imagine a situation where someone'd want to categorize for hardware recommendations versus software recommendations. If I'm looking for a recommendation, I'm going to already have an idea of what category that's in (maybe I'm looking for a particular effect, or I'm soliciting advice on a topic) which will already be more specific and taggable.

Really, I don't see a lot of utility for a recommendation tag of any sort, but I could imagine that someone might want to use it, say, to filter out more subjective questions.

I'd vote for just having the single recommendation tag.