It has been roughly one month since I started my little end user tagging experiment, so let's take a look at the results.

Mostly Harmless

Surprisingly, to me anyway, I have much less 'tag spam' than expected.  I think I have blown away maybe 40 tags that were spammy (profanity, single letters and gibberish mostly).  On the upside every post I have written since quietly going live has been tagged by end users.

My next step is to look at augmenting the built-in WordPress search with the tags that I am gathering.  I might just write a replacement search for the site that uses tags and content indexing... who knows.

In case you were wondering

Yes, I am planning on releasing my customized version of UTW as soon as I can. My apologies to Chris Pirillo, things have been crazy yo.

Right now I am using a 3 tier classification structure for my content: categories, author tags and user submitted tags.  After a year of collecting this could be very interesting.