This.
Obviously it's a voluntary system but it would allow to search by category and author.
The suggested keywords in that post would assign the categories, making it possible to properly filter a search. (you simply cannot search for vague terms like weapon or effect in a modding forum)
Yes, it's simplistic but what good is a system that's so complicated that the average Joe gamer can't use it?
This would list all mods...
Prefabricated search link
...or filter them by author
It should work with adding more keywords but that depeneds on when the crawler last visited the site and how it's structured.