# How to force a user to specify at least 1 tag?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-force-a-user-to-specify-at-least-1-tag/31096
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [16 يوليو 2015، 4:53ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-force-a-user-to-specify-at-least-1-tag/31096 "2015-07-16T04:53:23Z")
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### Author: ![tenzan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tenzan/32/42979_2.png) [@tenzan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tenzan)
#### Post date: [16 يوليو 2015، 4:53ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-force-a-user-to-specify-at-least-1-tag/31096/1 "2015-07-16T04:53:23Z")

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How to force user to specify at least 1 tag?

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### Author: ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [16 يوليو 2015، 5:09ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-force-a-user-to-specify-at-least-1-tag/31096/2 "2015-07-16T05:09:20Z")

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There is no facility to do this, because tags are entirely secondary to categories – and with good reason, too. Some people (read: “enough to be a problem”) have trouble choosing a category from a drop-down list, and you expect them to come up with a primary tag from free-text input? You get all the problems of the tyranny of choice plus all the problems of computer-interpreted free text entry.

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### Author: ![Neso](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/neso/32/73995_2.png) [@Neso](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Neso)
#### Post date: [12 مارس 2017، 9:41م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-force-a-user-to-specify-at-least-1-tag/31096/3 "2017-03-12T21:41:25Z")

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I’m very interested in this feature, we have pre-defined tags and would like to force users to choose at least one of them in a specific category. Could this be done?

Best regards,  
Neso

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### Author: ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [30 أغسطس 2017، 3:33ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-force-a-user-to-specify-at-least-1-tag/31096/4 "2017-08-30T03:33:34Z")

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I’m currently aware of 3 separate use cases for this requirement now (all current Discourse clients). More community structures are becoming reliant on tagging.

I’d love to see an optional setting to enforce tagging for new topics (from a dd-list of existing tags that are associated with the category).

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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [7 سبتمبر 2017، 7:47ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-force-a-user-to-specify-at-least-1-tag/31096/5 "2017-09-07T07:47:56Z")

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Continued here:

> [@The option to enforce tagging](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-option-to-enforce-tagging/69527):
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> I’ve requested in the past that there be a setting to enforce the use of at least one pre-existing tag when creating a topic. I’m now aware of 3 separate use cases for this requirement (all current Discourse clients). More community structures are becoming reliant on tagging. Communities that rely on tags for [surfacing content](https://experts.feverbee.com/). Large communities that use complex tags and tag groups for their AI. I’ve forgotten the details of the third one but I’ll edit it in. These are creating a heavy mod l…