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@Velocio
Right, on the whole tags thing.
I turned them back on a week ago after being off for 2 and a half months because of them breaking the forum (thousands of tags per thread, which the system couldn't handle).
As you can see from the post up top, the whole point is to help with search. They haven't really been used for search for a while though, mostly they're used for humour and bitching.
The problem I have there is that I now get more complaints and questions about tags about any other part of the site, and none of it is good stuff.
So the very real question I have is: Do the tags add anything?
Many people want the tags to lose their anonymity, and the authors outed. One person suggested converting tags to posts, so that they're still searchable and then you'd see the author.
I could certainly do that, it's not technically difficult to do... except there have been so many junk tags that you'd suddenly get a whole page of crap appended to a lot of threads. So why do it? Why uglify things?
And since they are ugly, and are used mostly for bitching, and they aren't adding greatly to search (the search engine has improved since tags were added)... why keep them?
Unless I get a really mind-blowingly great reason not to turn them off, then even though I invested energy and time to get them working again... I'm going to turn them off for good.
Anyone who feels that a thread is unsearchable, should just add keywords via replying to the thread.