Larks comments on Fall 2010 Meta Thread - Less Wrong
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There already is a tag system (you can see the links on the right). Do you want it to be more prominent?
I think he's actually speaking of a fixed, required taxonomy field, rather than free-tagging (to abuse Drupal terminology).
Free tagging is nice, but there's no way to structurally collapse the terms into a hierarchy, so that one can just browse "self improvement" - which might include akrasia, health, and improving personal rationality skills as subtopics.
You could have a system where the tag "akrasia" is marked as a subtag of "self-improvement", so that any article tagged with "akrasia" is implicitly tagged with "self-improvement".
I think this is also one of the arguments for subfora.