On what basis are new tags granted in t.j.c.? [answered]

I know this can be cumbersome. Do you keep tag proposals in evidence? Maybe it could be of help for the requester to get feedback on his/her proposals via yellow notification bar on top of the page. Would that be possible?

@lakutalo: Tag proposals are only visible to admins/moderators and once rejected, dropped from the database. Askbot doesn't offer such functionality (though you might create a feature request upstream) and we do not have any time currently to add a dedicated notification for tag approval/rejection...

@eric: So what exactly would be the disadvantage of having, say, 10,000 tags as opposed to 3,100? What would work less well or whose life would be harder? And I don't take "the db server admin's" as an answer...

@Jolly-Jo having 15 tags for each topic where only one is needed removes any usability of tags, 2k tags being a oneshot has the same result as just mentioning it in the title or text as you wont search for it by tag. We already had tags like storejolla-storestore-app where people do not know which one to use so they use all of them, as there are only that much stores available, you could just remove any app specific tag and tag all of them store otoh people look for play and not for store so it doesn't get more useless to discuss the need of 10k tags. If every store has its own tag, there is no need for the store tag, otoh why does every store need its own tag anyway? Not every library needs its own tag as tagging with bug and the app in use is enough for Jolla to find your report and probably some will never get reused, in the question itself you can go in detail. Was that enough "the db server admin's"? It is just not a good idea to always use question titles as tags... tagging needs to be a grouping feature not another form of title. To be efficient they need to be clean and on the point $type$functionality$app$system-protocol$service

@Jolly-Jo: As I stated before, many of the existing tags are one-shots, having a huge amount of them defeats the purpose of tagging. The moderation and clean-up are attempts at keeping the tag list short and relevant. Have a look at the tags page and scan through...