Also, just because other sites do it doesn’t mean it’s sensible, works, or should be done in any way. It just results in a bad user experience and I do blame Droid Life for being sheeple, if ‘others do it too!’ is the actual reason they do it.

Note that I never said they can’t link to the tag; they just shouldn’t do so inside an article.

Sites that optimize only for search engines deserve to visited by no one but search engines.