06-08-2015, 07:21 PM
Tags have long been on the roadmap of features to add but it's a massive project given the nature of how we want to implement it and with the current massive project (the icon renovation) still going on, it's just kind of sitting on the back burner.
That said, should it happen, it won't be exactly as you envision it. There won't be voting, for one. And users won't be able to just arbitrarily tag anything they want. It will be text based though so there won't be a pre-defined list and user additions of tags to existing items will be handled through the revision system. All of this would be in place to stop the inevitable spamming that would occur if the tagging system was open to all.
That said, should it happen, it won't be exactly as you envision it. There won't be voting, for one. And users won't be able to just arbitrarily tag anything they want. It will be text based though so there won't be a pre-defined list and user additions of tags to existing items will be handled through the revision system. All of this would be in place to stop the inevitable spamming that would occur if the tagging system was open to all.