Discussion: Tags may look clickable?

[sukhrajghuman]

Right now tags has two implementations: tags with links and tags without links.

From some feedback from usability testing on the marketplace sellers page, it appeared to the user that the tags were clickable.

This is an interesting point of discussion. From my experience, whenever I have seen tags, especially in the context of search, they are clickable? Stack overflow is a simple example that comes to mind:

[gordongrace]

From the introductory paragraph on the documentation page (emphasis added):

They are added to a web page, an asset or other content to help users search for and find related content quickly and easily.

More specific questions:

1. What would an unlinked list of tags provide a user that isn't able to be delivered via non-clickable metadata-style displays?
2. The visual representation of linked and non-linked tags appears identical. Is there a risk of introducing confusion through inconsistent behaviours?