In practice, tags are only useful in the narrow case where you have a sequence or other set of closely-related posts, and want to be able to provide a link to the whole sequence. People sometimes like to put in lots of tags, on the theory that this gives their post better visibility or makes things better organized somehow, but this doesn’t have much of any useful effect.
Tags do make searching for posts easier. So, what would someone who could benefit from seeing this post type into the search box? Signaling is the only term that comes to my mind. What else?
In practice, tags are only useful in the narrow case where you have a sequence or other set of closely-related posts, and want to be able to provide a link to the whole sequence. People sometimes like to put in lots of tags, on the theory that this gives their post better visibility or makes things better organized somehow, but this doesn’t have much of any useful effect.
Tags do make searching for posts easier. So, what would someone who could benefit from seeing this post type into the search box? Signaling is the only term that comes to my mind. What else?