Allow users to edit posts in comms without removing tags

[elf]

Title:
Allow users to edit posts in comms without removing tags

Area:
Tags in Communities

Summary:
Currently, if a community only allows moderators to set tags, a user who edits her post after tags have been added must remove all tags before submitting the edit. This should change.

Description:
Recently, I checked one of my older posts in a community & edited to fix a couple of punctuation errors. When I submitted the change, I got an error message: not allowed to set tags in this community. I had to go back to the edit page and remove the moderator-added tag in order to repost. (The other choice was "don't fix the post." I could've done that without many problems, even though I plan on linking to the post soon; in something with broken picture or vid links, that would be a lot more problematic.)

In this case, this was one tag in a small community; it could easily be re-added later and in the meantime it wouldn't throw people off. In a large, tag-heavy community like scans_daily, re-establishing the correct tags for a post can be a pain for the mods.

Editing posts should allow tags to remain as long as they're unchanged, even if individual members don't have the ability to create/edit tags in the community.

Poll #4879 Allow users to edit posts in comms without removing tags

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 61

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Should be implemented as-is.
57 (93.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
2 (3.3%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
2 (3.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[thorfinn]

Presumably the mods may wish to know that the post has been edited in order to re-evaluate the tags if necessary.

I'm not sure if an edited post re-enters moderation queue or anything, since I have no experience with moderated comms. :-)

[azurelunatic]

It doesn't.

[thorfinn]

In that case that is my vote for with changes. Editing a post should alert the mods somehow so that they can re-evaluate the post. Possibly that needs to be a separate suggestion, but it should apply to this case.

[cesy]

+1

I think it probably needs to be a separate suggestion, since it's a fairly big change for communities.