What is the rationale behind this instruction in the 7 tag wiki?

Question

In the tag wiki for 7 there is a comment at the bottom:

Version tags should be used only when strictly necessary, and not used just to report "I am using Drupal 7 in my site."

While I understand the probable intention (not clogging up these tags), I actually find having the version number as a tag very useful when answering questions, if only to know what version the user is struggling with (and so avoid a comment to ask). Users don't always put this information in their title/question.

Furthermore marking each question with the version of Drupal it relates creates a natural grouping for the questions, making it easy for experts in the different versions to spend their time in the right tag.

I can't think of a good reason to not mark each question with the Drupal version, unless of course that question is not version-specific.

I may well be missing the point though, can anyone comment?

Answer 1

Read Version tags considered harmful and Numeric version tags considered ... OK for backstory.

I think the comment is useless, because in all but very few cases, which version they're on is essential to answering the question. But it doesn't prohibit use of the tag, and you can just be judicious with your interpretation of "strictly necessary".

As a moderator I cannot foresee the need to remove a version tag from a question.