Tag suggestion: "best practices"

Question

After asking a question about types of dishwasher detergent, I realized that I see a lot of questions asking the "best way" to do something. For example:

• Best way to store vegetables in the fridge
• Best way to dry hands
• What's the best way to dispose of scrap lumber?
• Best way to vent smoke from stove, without room for a hood
• How can we use fallen leaves from tree in best way?

Aside from those with "best way" in the title, there are 56 posts talking about the "best way" to do something or other.

How about a best-practices or environmental-best-practices to apply to these posts? This would help differentiate between questions about items and their use, and would be convenient to point people to. For instance, when someone asks about replacing their car, we could point them to posts tagged best-practices and cars to make sure they're doing everything they can with their current car.

If folks agree, we could create and feature a meta post announcing the tags creation, and go tag all the appropriate questions.

Answer 1

There used to be such a tag on Stack Overflow, but it was black listed after Jeff's blog post "The Death of Meta Tags", which by the way explicitly mentions the former best-practices tag. The problem is that questions asking for "the best" are often not the best questions. To answer them you would need to compare your proposed solution with all other available options which is not always possible, and consequently answers tend to be subjective. Additionally it is questionable if many people will use the tag because meta-tags do not describe the topic of the question very well.

On the other hand, Sustainable Living SE is a different site than Stack Overflow. Here it is very common to ask about "the most sustainable" product or service which is basically the same.

Overall I'm inclined to say no, we shouldn't create such a tag, but I'm not 100% against experimenting.