[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #1305: Popular tags shown at the add plugin page are useless

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#1305: Popular tags shown at the add plugin page are useless
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  Reporter:  chriscct7    |      Owner:
      Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  normal       |  Component:  Plugin Directory
Resolution:               |   Keywords:  needs-patch
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Old description:

> Migrated from https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/23393
>
> {{{
> It seems like it reports the popular tags plugin authors use. Right now
> the popular tags I get are "admin","post","widget",
> "Ajax","plugin","posts"... even "wordpress" is there.
> I don't know if wordpress.org should simply automatically remove this
> type of tags, but how plugin authors tag their plugins is the least
> interesting information to the user. The user probably want to install a
> plugin which was installed by other people so tag popularity here should
> be by amount of downloads per tag. There are two SEO plugins in the most
> popular, but fro the tag cloud you might think that wordpress users are
> not interested in SEO
> }}}

New description:

 Migrated from https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/23393

 > It seems like it reports the popular tags plugin authors use. Right now
 the popular tags I get are "admin","post","widget",
 "Ajax","plugin","posts"... even "wordpress" is there.
 >
 > I don't know if wordpress.org should simply automatically remove this
 type of tags, but how plugin authors tag their plugins is the least
 interesting information to the user. The user probably want to install a
 plugin which was installed by other people so tag popularity here should
 be by amount of downloads per tag. There are two SEO plugins in the most
 popular, but fro the tag cloud you might think that wordpress users are
 not interested in SEO

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Comment (by netweb):

 ''Restored original ticket formatting for improved readability.''

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