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Mod note on 'USPolitics tag added, but why?'

Hey, Brandon's on duty today, will be around, but mostly listening, but here's a few responses to things brought up since my last comment:

Posted about this MeTa in the mod slack and the use of CamelCase for tags. For the 'uspolitics' tag is there a preference for 'USPolitics' or 'UsPolitics'?

The mods are open recalibrating on this and how and when we add tags to posts. Have left a reminder to use CamelCase when adding tags with multiple words, but just fyi the tag that was added by a mod to the post in question was 'USPolitics']

mediareport: "The USPolitics tag has now been removed, though the mod who removed it apparently didn't feel it necessary to say anything, either here or in the original thread, so I guess we can just assume from here on the mods will be more careful about adding it, but it would be nice, especially given Brandon's dismissive reply above, if they said to members that they have indeed decided to be more careful using it in the future."

See this comment earlier in the thread for the OP mentioning they had removed the tag themselves, which is totally fine.

Members always have the ability to add or remove tags from their posts after the post as b
Mod Comment by Brandon Blatcher on Jul. 12 at 8:23 AM to MetaTalk post USPolitics tag added, but why?
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