Why do we need a [ludum-dare] tag?

Question

Minicraft questions are beginning to appear on the site and, while reviewing, I noticed that they've also been tagged with ludum-dare. Seeing this as being roughly equivalent to a series tag, and the Ludum Dare competition not being relevant to the questions, I was going to simply edit them out until I noticed that it's one of our beloved moderators adding them.

Do we really need this tag? Of the three questions tagged with it, the fact that the games were made for Ludum Dare seems pertinent to none of them.

Answer 1

Prelude of the Chambered (Notch's previous Ludum Dare game) has exactly one question on it, which means the prelude-of-the-chambered tag itself will vanish in due time.

When the question on Minicraft was asked, I took the opportunity to hit both with ludum-dare so that they wouldn't wind up untagged.

It's effectively a "platform" tag, which Jeff Atwood has suggested as being the proper way to tag games which would otherwise lose their tag due to singleton questions.

Answer 2

Well, it looks like this tag was finally removed. (There were only four questions tagged, although it is impossible for me to tell what they were now. At least two were from Raven Dreamer, and the others I think were both from badp.)

I had been slowly going through tags that are missing information, and this was something I had some exposure to in the past. But alas, soon after I had made an attempt at drafting some text for the excerpt and wiki, my suggestions were deleted along with this tag. Farewell, Ludum Dare!

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Stop removing tags that are only used once in the last 6 months