Community tag privacy and management

[iamsosmart]

Title:
Community tag privacy and management

Area:
tags, communities

Summary:
Change default tag security to public. Enable an option that will allow members to add and remove mod-created tags from entries, but not create new ones.

Description:
There doesn't seem to be a tag management option that will let community members add and remove tags from their entries, but not create new ones.

Right now they can add, remove, AND create new ones ("Who can create new tags and add or remove tags from entries? Members Only"), or they can only add tags without being able to remove them OR create new ones ("Who can create new tags and add or remove tags from entries? Admin Only").

This is a bit problematic for comm mods who want members to be able to manage their own tags on entries, but don't want to give members the ability to create (or mistype) a bajillion new tags in the comm.

Another problem is that new tags added by the admin in the Manage Tags area are set as PRIVATE until they have actually been assigned to an entry -- by someone who can create new tags. So if your members cannot create new tags, they also can't use new tags YOU have made unless you stick the tags on an entry somewhere. I think having new tags defaulting to public would make more sense.

Poll #2961 Community tag privacy and management

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 55

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Should be implemented as-is.
47 (85.5%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
2 (3.6%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
2 (3.6%)

(I have no opinion)
4 (7.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[zaluzianskya]

YES. Yes to both of these issues. They have been a frustration (on other sites, anyhoo) for years.

[eruthros]

I don't think new tags should default to public unless something else about the manage tags page changes -- because how could an admin make a tag members-only or private, then? Would the tag be public until it was first used, and then members-only? Because that seems potentially problematic for members-only comms!

I do often want to be able to make community tags that are public before they're used, but I think that it should require an option pushed somewhere -- make all tags for this community public, or something.

[jumpuphigh]

I read that part of the suggestion differently (although, admittedly, I was just making it work in my head). I read it as public to whoever would have visibility of the tags if they had been used.

[iamsosmart]

Even if a tag is members-only, I think (I could be wrong!) that everyone can see it in the tags list as soon as it's used, so either way that's a moot point.

But that could be useful -- perhaps having a button in the Manage Tags page that says "Tag Privacy: Public/Private/Members-only" or something along those lines.