Lindsay: What's your address. I will mail you one of these LOL - http://www.zazzle.com/hashtag... - Mike Bracco

They're just distracting to me. In a forum like FriendFeed where you can do full text searches, I'm not sure what they really do but clutter things up. Personal preference, I know, but I don't like them. I am big on regular tags though. There should be a way to tag a post without using hashtags that would also not be displayed unless you wanted to look at the tags. - Fa La La La Lindsay

@Mike - that's the most attractive hashtag I've ever seen. :) - Fa La La La Lindsay

Ugly, yet highly effective. - Jason from BuddyFeed

@Jason - are they really? How do you make sure everyone is consistent? They're no good unless everyone plays. - Fa La La La Lindsay

I rather like them. #affection - Gordon Herd

Right now people are abusing them because they're new... I think once the dust settles, they will be utilized properly (read: sparingly) - Bwana ☠

I hope so, Bwana! - Fa La La La Lindsay

I use Delicious for tagging resources I want to find again. - Peter Warnock

Yeah, they're kind of a punch in the eye, visually. And you can't eat or smoke them, which, if you're gonna throw 'hash' in the name, you should be able to consume in some non-virtual way. - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ from iPhone

I agree. I don't think it's needed. It's ugly and distracting. I mean, we have threads. It's not like twitter where everything is a individual post and the need for tagging came about. - Rodfather

From a semantic perspective, they are powerful. How about a setting that filters the hashes from the view? - Peter Warnock

Gordon points out that a hashtag creates a link to the ff search query for that keyword. - Peter Warnock

I don't find them very attractive either. - Anne Bouey

#UGLYDUCKLINGS - Josh Haley

I #love hash #tags. And #at tags too, @bluecockatoo. - ·[▪_▪]·