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on the contrary. people use tags in many different ways. If forumengers wanted to post directly to an individual it would be said in thread, to that person. If they want to pass comment on a thread, or an idea without getting embroiled for example, then tags are used.
example:
search for the tag "cock". 4 threads, 1355 posts. Any forumenger could use this tag to start a hate campaign on the tagger based on the fact that the poster thinks that the tagger was talking about him/her specifically. Most of the time this wouldn't happen, but there's been a spat of action/reaction recently and this ain't gonna help.
so the more I think about this the more I think this is a very bad idea.