I don’t understand what keywords do, but okay. I’ll take a shot at the keyword game.
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Keywords should work like a mini-search engine. Not everyone will search for ‘Q’. Think of it as a digital card catalog. Look on the front matter of old, pre-digital books. You will find a numbered hierarchy of terms that are relative to the contents. These terms are what decided the numerical listing in both the Dewey and Library of Congress systems. Back then, there were limitations on the number of keywords and they are listed in a descending order with the overarching subject matter listed first, then a couple of secondary areas covered in the book. Today, we have no such limits.
Some keywords today are frivolous. You will recognize them. They are a distraction, though. One of the reasons Amazon Kindle limits search terms (which are keywords).
TQ, RL.
RE the keywords at the top of the article page function.
Others have described well how those keywords can be used to search directly for threads with those topics.
However the use to which I have been putting them is that they serve in a way as chapter headers for threads.
Sometimes I want to find something we were talking about a few threads back, but can’t remember which one was where all those profound statements by bagster (for example) occurred.
I’ll pull up the last few threads where I think those remarks are, and on one of them, I can see the chapter heading of something like vatican, and I can home in on the discussion related to various aspects of that. If i don’t see “vatican” i can skip searching that thread manually.
You can make the case that direct search is a lot better/faster, but when I like to see what an overall thread offers, the keywords heading is one way to do it.