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Maybe to address some safety/security concerns wihtout burdening admins/mods too much it could be useful to add a "tier 2" tag privilege. Leave the current edit tag privilege as is (just adding th...
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#2: Post edited
by
Lorenzo Donati
·
2023-08-14T07:12:08Z (about 1 year ago)
- Maybe to address some safety/security concerns wihtout burdening admins/mods too much it could be useful to add a "tier 2" tag privilege.
- Leave the current edit tag privilege as is (just adding the ability to create new tags) and create a more "powerful" privilege, e.g. "manage tags", that would grant further, more dangerous, capabilities.
- In particular, "tag managers" should be able to:
- + Rename tags.
- + Deleting *unused* tags.
- + Suggest deleting a tag (it would need a queue for admins/mods, but it would streamline requests without cluttering meta).
- + Suggest merging a tag (needs another queue).
This tier 2 privilege should be much more hard to earn or even be granted by mods choice alone, so to ensure only really trusted users are allowed.
- Maybe to address some safety/security concerns wihtout burdening admins/mods too much it could be useful to add a "tier 2" tag privilege.
- Leave the current edit tag privilege as is (just adding the ability to create new tags) and create a more "powerful" privilege, e.g. "manage tags", that would grant further, more dangerous, capabilities.
- In particular, "tag managers" should be able to:
- + Rename tags.
- + Deleting *unused* tags.
- + Suggest deleting a tag (it would need a queue for admins/mods, but it would streamline requests without cluttering meta).
- + Suggest merging a tag (needs another queue).
- This tier 2 privilege should be much more hard to earn or even be granted by mods choice alone, so to ensure only really trusted users are allowed.
- ### EDIT
- After doing lots of work on tags clean-up on EE.CD I found that point 2 above is of paramount importance for ease of management.
- After retagging a lot of questions with more sensible tags, I found myself with a lot of 0-question tags that had to be deleted for a number of reasons:
- + They were typos or trolling, so their deletion is warranted.
- + They should be synonyms of previously existing or newly created tags, so they must be deleted before adding them as synonyms.
- + They are too specific, too generic or ambiguous, so they should be blacklisted (with the workaround I'm experimenting, they have to be added as synonyms to some "do-not-use" tag I created for this purpose).
- Without the ability to delete such "orphaned" tags, tags management becomes extremely clunky and involves escalating to mods or devs, so it is also wasteful of "higher level" resources.
- However, since it is potentially destructive (in a more convoluted way than a plain deletion) it needs more privilege.
- Note: the question number should be the "net" number, not counting the deleted questions. As of this writing the tags pages show numbers that include also deleted questions that don't show up when you click the tag. These shouldn't prevent deletion of the tag by users with this tier-2 privilege.
#1: Initial revision
by
Lorenzo Donati
·
2023-08-13T20:00:23Z (about 1 year ago)
Maybe to address some safety/security concerns wihtout burdening admins/mods too much it could be useful to add a "tier 2" tag privilege. Leave the current edit tag privilege as is (just adding the ability to create new tags) and create a more "powerful" privilege, e.g. "manage tags", that would grant further, more dangerous, capabilities. In particular, "tag managers" should be able to: + Rename tags. + Deleting *unused* tags. + Suggest deleting a tag (it would need a queue for admins/mods, but it would streamline requests without cluttering meta). + Suggest merging a tag (needs another queue). This tier 2 privilege should be much more hard to earn or even be granted by mods choice alone, so to ensure only really trusted users are allowed.