Does your community rely heavily on tagging? What tips do you have?

[Anatolia]

@mcwumbly

But in order to really have tags aid in discoverability, it seems we need to surface them in more intentional ways, and provide more guidance for community curation. Some thoughts we have:

1. Show popular tags within a given category underneath that category on the new home page
2. On a given category topic list page, show popular tags within that category above the topic list (perhaps in something tag cloud form?)
3. On a given tag topic list page, show other tags that are frequently used with that tag
4. Require some minimum number of tags on a given post
5. Suggest possible tags based on the content of a topic after it’s written
6. Suggest possible tags to add to a topic after a new post is written
7. Suggest possible tags to add to a topic as it’d being read .
8. When a new tag is added, nudge people with questions like:

• Have you checked if there’s an existing tag that means the same thing?
• Cool! A new tag! Are there other existing topics that should get this tag?

9. On the main /tags page, automatically organize them some how in their frequency and relationship to each other
10. Have some semi-automated garbage collection of tags that have little or no frequency, or effectively push them to the sidelines in the UI

I agree this suggestions. Tags are essential part of Discourse but there is lack of a sophisticated tag interface in my opinion.

Also this may be a optional core feature: Discourse Popular Tag Sidebar