# Prevent new tag from updating topic currency

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-new-tag-from-updating-topic-currency/195761>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [July 2, 2021, 11:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-new-tag-from-updating-topic-currency/195761 "2021-07-02T11:51:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![robbie.morrison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c5a1d2/32.png) [@robbie.morrison](https://meta.discourse.org/u/robbie.morrison)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 11:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-new-tag-from-updating-topic-currency/195761/1 "2021-07-02T11:51:42Z")

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At present, adding a **new tag** to an **old topic** updates its currency. This seems a bit of an overreaction and it would be useful to be able to disable this functionality. Here is a screenshot example:

  

 ![discourse.screenshot-20210702t100728z.annot](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/f/3/f32880de4007fe747c990815880d58caacb9ad51.png)

  

In this case, the tag `scenarios` was added and the topic age automatically resets to zero.

This seems somewhat counterintuitive to me because tagging is more like maintenance than content change? Indeed, as an admin, I quite often add tags to topics, even after some months or longer has passed. In which case, making the affected topics current again seems a bit excessive? TIA.&nbsp;R

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