Gablar's Journal: Tags system

Before my linux exploration, I have a comment about slashdot tags system. One of the reasons that attracted me to slashdot was the quality of the discussions and the independent thought that could be read in slahdot's discussions. That was until the Tag system started.

I believe that having ultra condensed opinions in the form of tags, makes you enter the discussion with a preconceived notion. FUD, Not FUD, slow news day, all that influences in a subcontious manner the thoughts of the readers and posters. When I enter a discussion with a FUD tag then I will enter thinking that what I'm reading is not true, or when I enter a slow news days I enter already with the notion that this news bit is somehow not important. But what if it is? What if someone can make a really important connection between the "unimportant" news and a very important one?

Maybe is just me, but when I enter a discussion I don't want to have my opinion influenced by a tag. I think the tag system needs to go away. But I dont think it will since it is good for the short term traffic on slashdot.