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Why at least 1 tag?
When saving a question, there must be at least 1 tag. Is this necessary? Should this be adjustable per community?
Should tagging be the responsibility of the original author, or the responsibility of the community? If someone has a question but they don't find any existing tags that seem to fit, or they are not sure how best to categorise it, should they be able to post their question without tags, and let the community decide how to tag it?
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I agree with Olin that some form of incentive is necessary if you want to actually end up with questions getting tagged. But there are sticks, and then there are carrots.
One possibility is to allow untagged questions, but have them start automatically closed until someone edits to add a tag. Or if necessary, handle it separately in the logic; but the basic idea is, no answers can be posted as long as the question is untagged.
To support this, there would need to be an easy way to view the list of untagged questions, so that people taking on the responsibility could audit those questions.
This removes friction to getting proposed questions onto a site, from people who find tagging intimidating or are worried about tag etiquette. Say for example someone asks the first question on Software about a new programming language, or library, etc.; and hesitates when seeing that there isn't a tag for it already. (The community would have the opportunity here to choose a possibly better tag name than OP had in mind.)
Asking a really good question is inherently difficult; it may help to offload parts of that work to specialists, and not require OP to be more of a generalist than really necessary. However, unwillingness to tag is potentially a warning that the question has other rough spots; and an answer on a question has greatly limited value when it can't be found. SEO aside, tags are important for experts to find questions where their expertise applies. It's not good if questions draw answers from people who are eager to answer questions, while escaping the notice of those most qualified to answer.
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If we allowed no tags, we'd never (±20%) get tags. I know I wouldn't bother.
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