# How to restrict tagging

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-restrict-tagging/43617
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 3, 2016, 3:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-restrict-tagging/43617 "2016-05-03T15:19:56Z")
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### Author: ![Drew\_Warwick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/drew_warwick/32/80591_2.png) [@Drew\_Warwick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Drew_Warwick)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2016, 3:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-restrict-tagging/43617/1 "2016-05-03T15:19:56Z")

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So it looks like the tagging plugin and I assume, by extension, the integrated tagging supports “[restricting] who can tag to a particular trust level”, but I’m not seeing a way to restrict the _creation_ of tags to a specific trust level anywhere. It’d be great if like on StackExchange, the creation of tags was restricted to certain permission levels. A good default imo is Regular since those users participate actively enough in the forum to know when it’s a good idea to add a tag, but of course, site admins should be able to configure this if they wish.

If you want a good reason for restricting tag creation to higher-level users, here’s a snapshot from the Discourse forum I regularly use:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/c/3/7/c37907d0f6c2d04846bf290595bfd039dd294b55.png)  
 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/e/3/2/e3231d82c900f9981af3afb743151359209d7a56.png)

We have some pretty irking tags like “resyncs\_polls” (Resyncable is a user who creates spammy polls), “died”, “iamanidiot”, “massive\_horde”, “helpplz”, “gksw” (someone created a tag for a member?), “beware”, etc. Needless to say, it’s become very apparent that most of the people on our forum should not have access to the privilege of creating tags.

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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: [May 3, 2016, 3:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-restrict-tagging/43617/2 "2016-05-03T15:28:02Z")

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There is a site setting `min trust to create tag`, you can set it to TL 4, which must be manually promoted to and update all admins/staff to be TL 4

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### Author: ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-restrict-tagging/43617/3 "2016-05-03T15:37:58Z")

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Also, as of mid-January, TL4 is the `min trust to create tag` default value, and TL3 is the default for tag usage.

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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/how-to-restrict-tagging/43617/5 "2024-06-08T12:45:39Z")

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