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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes
^This is really a question of indexing exhaustivity versus term specificity. Both sets of tags (frequent and infrequent) have their uses. Now if everything has the tag of book then it is useless.
My own opinion is that removing less frequent tags completely negates the importance of the long tail.
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I love the long tail, but I understand why some want to reduce their tag list. I keep a custom genre column that serves the purpose of broad categorization.
Instead of throwing away the long tail, there were other options. They could have copied the tags into a custom tag-type column and thrown away the tail from that column. That way, a tag on 5 books might later have made it past the 6 book threshold when another book with that tag arrived and they ran the process again (copy all tags to a custom column and delete the long tail from the custom column).
Data is so hard to come by that throwing it away seems a crime.