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What are some examples of good questions falling under the following tags?

I am asking this question because often, positive reactions from users towards certain off-topic questions allow these questions to get by. Hence, I guess that highly up voted questions are not necessarily good examples.

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    $\begingroup$ In my opinion "advice" is utterly useless as a tag. On MO I campaign for its deletion. I did not realize it exists here too. I think will do the same here. To make clear what my point is: it can mean most everything, it's usage is quite arbitrary. $\endgroup$
    – quid Mod
    Dec 5, 2015 at 1:35
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    $\begingroup$ @quid on top of that, it may be fooling people into thinking personal advice questions are ok just when we've started deliberately discouraging those here . I'm behind you on getting rid of advice. $\endgroup$
    – rschwieb
    Dec 5, 2015 at 3:25
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    $\begingroup$ And any question on career development should really go to academia.se, I would guess. Soft-question has its uses, but I don't trust myself to explain it well at this time of night. $\endgroup$
    – rschwieb
    Dec 5, 2015 at 3:27
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    $\begingroup$ Maybe we should do the same for all tags.... $\endgroup$
    – user642796
    Dec 5, 2015 at 5:54
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    $\begingroup$ The tag career-development is mostly garbage. It has the record for the most closed question with 60%. It distantly leads publishing which has 25% of its question closed. advice is at 21%, soft-question "only" at 11% (recall that only 3.9% of all questions are closed). At least for advice and career-developme,t, I believe you're asking for something that doesn't exist. $\endgroup$
    – Najib Idrissi
    Dec 5, 2015 at 7:47
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    $\begingroup$ Perhaps these soft questions aren't so bad (or have prompted useful answers): math.stackexchange.com/questions/71874/…, math.stackexchange.com/questions/733754/…, math.stackexchange.com/questions/154/…, math.stackexchange.com/questions/250/…, math.stackexchange.com/questions/820686/…, for a start. $\endgroup$
    – Gerry Myerson
    Dec 5, 2015 at 11:32
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    $\begingroup$ @GerryMyerson the first is bad as it contains a lot of fluff about "good" that is a distraction. $\endgroup$
    – quid Mod
    Dec 5, 2015 at 12:29
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    $\begingroup$ While not a law (because there are exceptions), a guideline for if a tag is good or not is "Can someone be an expert in ___?" And while there are plenty of radio show hosts who claim to be experts in advice, they're hardly what I would consider objective. If someone put the advice tag on my SE I'd burninate it faster than... a ... thing that goes really fast or something. $\endgroup$
    – corsiKa
    Dec 18, 2015 at 0:22

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The following two questions seem like good questions to me tagged

Research Experience for Undergraduates: Summer Programs (that accept non-American applicants)

Pure mathematics in our society

They are both specific to mathematics and admit factual answers that are generally applicable.

There should be some good questions that happen to be tagged , but I feel this tag is so vague and broad that "under the [...] tag" just is not applicable.

Likewise, the tag is in my opinion too broad to talk in a meaningful way about questions "under the [...] tag". In some sense it is an "anti-tag;" historically, a main reason for it to exist is so that users that so wish can block vague and non-mathematical questions (at least it was like this on MO and a lot of the early tagging conventions here where imported from there).

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