I would not oppose some means of allowing authors to
add META
tags that were honest and accurate and based on human judgment.
But if we created META tags by some automated process just to
get higher rankings on search engines that still use them,
then we would be guilty of manipulation just as other
advertisers are.
The process of adding links to an article is a lot like selecting
keywords:
Stephen King is a [[horror]] [[author]] ...
Not using this information to make life easier for some search engines
seems like a waste. On the other hand, I doubt that other search engines
than Google really matter nowadays, and I agree that meta tags depend a
lot on honesty, which makes them notoriously unreliable.
Regards,
Erik