that tag may describe your content, yet no one uses it etc etc.
I know! I've decided to use only Finnish words in my @jokinmenipieleen posts as I am writing in Finnish there, and those tags certainly are the kind that no-one uses. And the weird thing is that after 7 days, If the tag is unpopular enough, if I click on the tag that I know I've used at least once, it doesn't seem to exist anymore! It's not Trending, New, Hot or Promoted, so no-one can find it anymore. That sucks. Although sometimes new tags go several years back! Try to fins my #skynet post from 5 months ago. It exists but you can't find it by clicking that tag. At least I couldn't yesterday. I have no idea why.
I think there should be two fields for an author to fill. Tags and key words. The first could be about communities, contests and such and the key words should be about the content of the text and only that.
Hashtags work just fine in Twitter, FB and Instagram even when people and groups invent different kind of tags. Why not Steemit? Or is it because you are allowed only 5 tags? As you said, people use the tags that could bring people to their post, not necessarily the most relevant tags. (Of course Steepshot is an exception with the tags.)
Although I feel steemit has stopped giving a shit which is fair enough now let the rest please build something we can be proud off.
Hear hear.