Clean-Up: [graphics-card], [monitor], others -> [hardware]

Question

We have a tag hardware, and then several tags for other components.

Examples: monitor graphics-card mouse keyboard power-supply hard-drive*

Currently all hardware-related tags to hardware. Very frequently these tags are used in conjunction with hardware anyway, and in the instances that they are they always should be anyway, so this is very much a request for discussion in the context of cleaning up the tags.

*hard-drive would not be appropriate to merge due to it's use on consoles.

Would it be possible to do something like a general input and have keyboard and mouse as synonyms, rename graphics-card to graphics and have monitor as a synonym etc?

Answer 1

I disagree.

I don't like graphics-card, it has a number of issues, but at least it's specific. hardware is simultaneously vague and extremely broad. As a category I don't think it's useful -- it's 50% of the scope of Super User!¹ I vote to remove the general tag entirely.

_{¹With the other half being software, and yes, I am greatly simplifying their scope.}