Hey, @maiki! Thanks for the quick response.
The former. The site has a handful of TL4-level superusers, of sorts, and one thing we’ve discussed is how typical users often create overlapping tags with slightly different names (e.g. “chromeos” and “chrome-os” — or “customization,” “customizing,” and “customization-ideas”). And that, of course, leads to a bit of organizational chaos, where topics that should be related end up in separate tags instead.
It would be overkill and a needless security softening to turn all these TL4 users into full-fledged admins, but it would be very helpful for them to be able to assist with this more moderator-like task and have the ability to hop in and correct this sort of thing when it comes up and they see it — by either changing the name of an ill-created tag or perhaps just deleting the tag entirely (after reassigning the post to a more appropriate alternative) — as opposed to having to constantly ask an admin to take care of that for them.
Really appreciate the thoughtful consideration!