You know it's really funny how if you have something that looks like [Gaming] it's ok, or if it looks like a button, that's cool too. People are OK with tags, they've been around for ages and represent something we work with on multiple levels of thought: categories. But put a '#' in front of it and people start freaking out and calling it twitter or whatever. Take a deep breath, calm down, they're just tags. Yes, Bungie decided to represent them with a '#' in front, because that's the current trend. But they could just as easily [looked like this] or - this - or even [u][b]THIS[/b] [/u] You're confusing its representation on the site with its true nature: it's just a way to attach categories to something. We do it everyday; we call this a 'computer' or that a 'car.' Sure, we don't think '#computer' or '[car]', but those symbols are just a way of telling us 'hey! this thing is important. it does something. check it out!' Compromise? We can ditch the # but keep the tagging system; its far to powerful to let slip away :)