# Recent Odd Behavior with Tag Visibility to Users

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/recent-odd-behavior-with-tag-visibility-to-users/87101
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 9, 2018, 8:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recent-odd-behavior-with-tag-visibility-to-users/87101 "2018-05-09T20:13:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![ArMK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7feea3/32.png) [@ArMK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ArMK)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2018, 8:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recent-odd-behavior-with-tag-visibility-to-users/87101/1 "2018-05-09T20:13:04Z")

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I have recently noticed this weird tagging behavior, so not sure if it’s to do with the latest updates:  
I have tags enabled on my forum, and organized by tag groups. However, the tags are only visible to staff, whereas it used to not be so. Here are my settings:

Tags: enabled  
Tag Style: bullets  
Minimum Trust to Create Tag: 4  
Minimum Trust to Tag Topic: 0

I have created multiple Tag Groups, with the following settings for each group:

 ![Discourse%20Tags%20Page](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/f/e/fe796ad62674065bd1a8ae49b6388d1a9c63e2cd.JPG)

What’s odd now, is that when I check mark “Tags are visible to everyone, but only staff can use them”, then the tags become visible to users. But when check mark “Tags can be used by everyone”, then they become invisible. Am I missing something here? Like I said, I never had this issue before!

Thanks.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2018, 8:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recent-odd-behavior-with-tag-visibility-to-users/87101/2 "2018-05-09T20:20:30Z")

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Not sure, can you repro @jomaxro?

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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 10, 2018, 7:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recent-odd-behavior-with-tag-visibility-to-users/87101/4 "2018-05-10T19:31:51Z")

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This sounds very similar to [Tags can be used by everyone causes tag to be usable only by staff - #4 by jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-can-be-used-by-everyone-causes-tag-to-be-usable-only-by-staff/86953/4) - we definitely have a bug here. Closing this topic, we’ll keep everything over in #Contribute > Bug.

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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 10, 2018, 7:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recent-odd-behavior-with-tag-visibility-to-users/87101/5 "2018-05-10T19:31:54Z")

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