# Doubt about tagging

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/doubt-about-tagging/46347
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 23, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/doubt-about-tagging/46347 "2016-06-23T15:47:20Z")
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### Author: ![SidV](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sidv/32/119460_2.png) [@SidV](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SidV)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/doubt-about-tagging/46347/1 "2016-06-23T15:47:20Z")

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Hello my friends.

If you search for a keyword, for example here:  
[https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=tagging](https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=tagging)

A lot of discussions appears. That ok.  
I selected all of them.  
And clic on “tool”, edit tags, put “one” tag, example: “about-tags”  
And all discussion lost the previous tags, and apply new “about-tags” tag.

Understand my idea?  
Is this a 🐛 ?

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### Author: ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/doubt-about-tagging/46347/2 "2016-06-23T15:51:16Z")

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Not a bug, but there is a feature request asking for an append tag. I’ll see if I can dig it up.

Here it is

> [@Bulk Actions: "Add Tags" in addition to "Change Tags"](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-actions-add-tags-in-addition-to-change-tags/40059):
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> Today I made the rather sad discovery that the bulk “change tags” feature depicted below actually will set the tags for selected topics to be exactly the same as the tags entered, meaning it will remove any existing tags. Discovery is sad because I accidentally borked 20 or more topic tags because I misunderstood what was going to happen, and there’s no undo. crying_cat_face A fix to this would be to add a new “Add Tags” option to the bulk actions, which would allow the bulk adding of tags to…

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### Author: ![SidV](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sidv/32/119460_2.png) [@SidV](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SidV)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2016, 4:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/doubt-about-tagging/46347/3 "2016-06-23T16:54:44Z")

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Ah, OK @cpradio, so it is standard behavior 👍

> Now “remove” the others tags, and “add” the new one.

Thanks.

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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2024, 12:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/doubt-about-tagging/46347/4 "2024-06-08T12:45:29Z")

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