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I agree with you about the tags. Half the time I don't even put any on my posts because I don't know what to call them. Stackoverflow gets around the problem of inconsistent tags by having a limited number of them & auto completing as you type. You need to have a certain amount of reputation on that site before you can add more tags. I don't know about the reputation part, but maybe a list of suggested tags could make things more homogenous?