Generally, I agree. Although, to nitpick, the tags are useful for bringing attention to their existence (credit: benny1967), and for fun, but they serve no practical purpose. many posters don't use tags (example: this thread does not tagged with "tag", even though that's the topic), and i can't see any advantage to doing a tag search instead of a google search.

of course, i mostly visit the forums to have fun, so i think they might as well stay. and i wouldn't call it "abuse". if (arguably) funny tags are abuse, then isn't the whole "off-topic" section abuse? i mean, the purpose of these forums is to talk about internet tablets, right? but people have fun talking about other things here, too, and expressing their opinions wherever they like, including the tag cloud.