Freeze Tag

[azurelunatic]

Title:
Freeze Tag

Area:
tags, community management

Summary:
Freeze any given entry's tags against change by non-owner/non-admin even when general tagging permissions say otherwise (with optional reason why). This might be most useful for community management, but could be useful for personal journals too.

Description:
This case came up in writing another suggestion. Sometimes the tags on a specific entry should not be modified. This might be because a community administrator has set the tags as they should be and no one should mess with them by accident, or perhaps because a situation has started to get out of hand in a particular entry, and the battle has progressed to the tags.

Ordinarily the community's tag permissions are as they ought to be, and it would unfairly penalize the community members to disallow them from their ordinary tagging behavior because of this one special (or egregious) case.

Ideally, the edit tags link should not even be shown on that entry for non-admins, but any attempt to edit the tags from someone who is not a community administrator should result in an error message saying that changing the tags on this entry is not permitted because a community admin set it that way, and optionally with a reason why.

Admins should be able to unfreeze the tags on the entry.

If an entry has frozen tags, should the admin be able to change them without first unfreezing them? On the one hand, an admin, like a honey badger, should be able to do what they want. On the other hand, perhaps the tags are frozen also against admin carelessness or so a different community administrator doesn't accidentally mess up something the first admin set up. I suppose a "The tags on this entry are frozen [because reasons]. Ticky this box if you want to change them, and also ticky that box if you want to leave them unfrozen" message would protect against accidental changing while allowing the admins to keep doing their thing without going too far out of their way.

I see this as mostly useful in communities, but don't see a reason to keep personal journals from using it.

Poll #11691 Freeze Tag

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 54

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Should be implemented as-is.
37 (68.5%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
2 (3.7%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
14 (25.9%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (1.9%)

Comments

[arethinn]

I like the idea of being able to freeze tags on a specific entry without having to change journal/community settings.

I don't think the post owner should be able to freeze against an admin (i.e.: admins can always unfreeze).

I think the admin should be able to edit the tags without unfreezing them because this would be necessary for cleanup in your "tag battle" scenario - if they first have to be unfrozen, then the members/users who were doing that could go at it again. But a warning of some kind that an(other) admin had frozen the tags, are you sure you want to edit them without unfreezing them first, might be a good idea.

(dunno if this is really a "with changes" answer, but I feel like it's not quite "as-is" either, so.)