Seeking [answers] about these tags on meta

Question

As well as answers, there's answering-advice, appropriate-answers, accepted-answer, unanswered-questions, and answer-howto.

I understand what an accepted answer is, and also what an unanswered question is. However, I don't know the difference between "advice" about an answer, what is an "appropriate" answer, or a "howto" for answers. I don't even see how they're much more use than just posts about answers. Shall we burninate "answering-advice", "appropriate-answers" and "answer-howto"?

Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous?

No, I can't tell them apart.

Is the concept described even on-topic for the site?

It's on-topic for meta, yes.

Does the tag add any meaningful information to the post?

A very small amount.

Does it mean the same thing in all common contexts?

Yes

Answer 1

I don't have a problem with any of those tags, and I'm not even certain that the lack of any information for them is much of a problem either, I'm afraid. However, I haven't checked whether the existing questions which use these tags follow common sense.

All these tags serve different purposes, and I believe that apart from the overarching answers tag, there is not a great deal of overlap. I don't see any harm in grouping answering-advice questions together, and allowing those questions to be distinguished from accepted-answer.

• answers

  The question asks about answers. Might go with support or discussion, and could even be paired with other tags.

• answering-advice

  The question asks "How should I have approached answering?" Might go with support or discussion.

• accepted-answer

  Paired with support, this is for questions like "How do I unaccept an answer?" (also see below) or "Why didn't I get my +15 or +2 rep?", which would also need the reputation tag. Paired with discussion, this might be used for "Why was this answer accepted?" or "How do we unaccept an answer which is obviously wrong?"

• unanswered-questions

  This is for Meta questions about questions which do not have an answer (perhaps "Is this question actually answerable?"), or which Community ♦ has bumped because of its criteria.

• answer-howto

  This is for asking about what steps to follow in order to post an answer, or maybe how to accept an answer. It would almost certainly be paired with support.