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Category settings include some tag settings: Required tags: a set of tags, one of which must be included in a post (this is how discussion, feature-request, bug, and support on meta work) ...
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#2: Post edited
by
Monica Cellio
·
2023-08-13T20:37:02Z (9 months ago)
- Category settings include some tag settings:
- - Required tags: a set of tags, one of which must be included in a post (this is how discussion, feature-request, bug, and support on meta work)
- - Topic tags: tags with a visual difference but no other restrictions (the Proposals site uses these)
- - Moderator-only tags: what it says on the label.
- It seems reasonable to me to add blacklisted tag names as a fourth type of setting. Everything else in this section involves actual tags and I don't know if the code is assuming that, so I don't know if this is easy or hard. I'll have to ask.
- Category settings are admin-only because there's destructive stuff in there too. This approach works if blacklisting is expected to not be a super-frequent operation. Our team is generally pretty quick in responding to requests from moderators for configuration changes, but I do acknowledge that it's an extra step, so if we think it'll be needed a lot we should look for another way to approach it.
(Possibly it makes sense to move these settings from the category settings to new options available from the tags page, like the "new" button that is available to those with Edit Tags and above. But that's a bigger job.)
- Category settings include some tag settings:
- - Required tags: a set of tags, one of which must be included in a post (this is how discussion, feature-request, bug, and support on meta work)
- - Topic tags: tags with a visual difference but no other restrictions (the Proposals site uses these)
- - Moderator-only tags: what it says on the label.
- It seems reasonable to me to add blacklisted tag names as a fourth type of setting. Everything else in this section involves actual tags and I don't know if the code is assuming that, so I don't know if this is easy or hard. I'll have to ask.
- Category settings are admin-only because there's destructive stuff in there too. This approach works if blacklisting is expected to not be a super-frequent operation. Our team is generally pretty quick in responding to requests from moderators for configuration changes, but I do acknowledge that it's an extra step, so if we think it'll be needed a lot we should look for another way to approach it.
- (Possibly it makes sense to move these settings from the category settings to new options available from the tags page, like the "new" button that is available to moderators. But that's a bigger job.)
#1: Initial revision
by
Monica Cellio
·
2023-08-13T19:32:07Z (9 months ago)
Category settings include some tag settings: - Required tags: a set of tags, one of which must be included in a post (this is how discussion, feature-request, bug, and support on meta work) - Topic tags: tags with a visual difference but no other restrictions (the Proposals site uses these) - Moderator-only tags: what it says on the label. It seems reasonable to me to add blacklisted tag names as a fourth type of setting. Everything else in this section involves actual tags and I don't know if the code is assuming that, so I don't know if this is easy or hard. I'll have to ask. Category settings are admin-only because there's destructive stuff in there too. This approach works if blacklisting is expected to not be a super-frequent operation. Our team is generally pretty quick in responding to requests from moderators for configuration changes, but I do acknowledge that it's an extra step, so if we think it'll be needed a lot we should look for another way to approach it. (Possibly it makes sense to move these settings from the category settings to new options available from the tags page, like the "new" button that is available to those with Edit Tags and above. But that's a bigger job.)