To those who assume that exposing this information would be subject to abuse: yes, it could possibly be abused--but I think that the benefits would offset the risk by a fair deal. For one thing, the community would continue to retag questions that were wrongly tagged just to draw attention.
Also, the currently provided data can be easily used to see the list of tags applied to a user's questions. I can easily look at user X, query their posts, and aggregate the tags of their posts into a rough profile of what they are working on, it's likely to be a subset of what they are interested in.
BUT one C# developer might realize that C# is just the language he uses to work with the framework, so he might tag all his questions with just [.NET]
, another might tag their BCL questions with [C#]
and [.NET]
, and another might confuse the language for the framework and tag all their questions as just [C#]
. However, the same group of user's may all have both tags in their Interesting Tags list.
So far the only good reason not to include this data is Brad's answer. The opponents of the idea seem to be paranoid that the data is ripe for abuse--because what I really want to know is whether I can get more spam-hits by tagging questions with Viagra or Enzyte
.net
, notc#
if it is a .NET framework question. – Eric Aug 18 '09 at 19:32