# Are the staff tags needed to be visible by users in the tag-page?

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**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [August 29, 2017, 12:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-the-staff-tags-needed-to-be-visible-by-users-in-the-tag-page/68988 "2017-08-29T12:30:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2018, 4:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-the-staff-tags-needed-to-be-visible-by-users-in-the-tag-page/68988/13 "2018-02-27T16:18:18Z")

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> [@tobiaseigen](#):
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> It would be beyond lovely to be able to use them for both topics and messages, but not allow anyone to see them except staff.

Adding to the worm can 🥫 — we’d need to be able to distinguish a private tag from a public tag in the interface because someone could in theory create a public “urgent” tag and a private “urgent” tag. Unless the staff tags are completely banned from public use (but that seems like it could be annoying?).

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