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@Oliver Schick
I've always liked tags, I find them a lot of fun, although I don't contribute much to them. Admittedly, their search utility has been completely borked. I honestly don't think you'd get many complaints if the authorship was openly visible, but then you'd probably get complaints about abusive PMs that people might write to make up for the lack of an opportunity to bitch anonymously.
In order to make the forum more useful and searchable, I suspect that it would be easier to add a feature which allowed people to add tags to their own posts. Those tags needn't be visible but could help in searches better than public tags, assuming that people would want to use that feature in a useful way, e.g. to find stuff they'd written more easily again later. We obviously have a large backlog of posts, so it wouldn't be very deeply embedded straightaway.
So, I think two requirements for future public 'tags' would be the aforementioned tagger outing and to make the system quite robust and powerful so that abuse wouldn't cause the whole forum difficulty like it did during Taggate (although I'm not saying that easy abuse should be enabled).