The thing is that hash tags can be easily abused. People can add as many hash tags to their thread as they want just so that it will get a lot of attention. For example, you have six hash tags applied to this thread. This is a mild example, too, since the only "official" ones you used are #feedback and #Flood. However, I have seen some labeled with #feedback, #Community, #Bungie and #Flood. Those threads span several of the old communities, some of which they do not belong in. There is nothing to stop these people from adding whatever hash tags they want and as many as they want to their threads either. And if the ninjas can warn/ban a person for misusing hash tags, which I assume will be the case, I can only see that as being harder for them to moderate than having set forums for conversations to take place in. I think having several set forums is the best option. However, I would think that implementing the hash tags into the old forum setup as sort of a subtopic search would be an interesting thing to try. I also wish to address something that ABotelho mentioned in this thread, as well. Having comments listed in the order of priority instead of chronological order makes no sense to me. This just breaks up any conversation that could be had since comments that aren't considered "high priority" will be pushed to the bottom of the thread. Yes, you can reply to specific comments now. However, that just makes the conversations more separate. Instead of everyone communicating with each other, you have some smaller conversations that don't tie in to each other. Also, you have to look for these conversations to find them. You won't be able to just stumble across them and watch how they play out as you scroll down the page.