Admin only tags, plus required tags?

[robmc (Robert McIntosh)]

@stub

Is it possible to insist that any new post must include a selection of any 1 of these admin created tags? Or post is not accepted.

Yes, it IS now possible (since version 2.0). You can see the discussion here:

The option to enforce tagging

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. 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…

If you have enabled tags on your site, then you have a category setting that allows you to determine how many tags are required as a minimum:

@stub

So a topic is a thread title? Correct?

We use the term topic to mean the conversation, beginning with the first post. So the topic is the original post and all the subsequent posts in the conversation. You are not able to tag the posts individually, but you can add the tag to the topic.

If a post within that topic is different or unrelated, and therefore requires a different tag, you can always select it and convert it into a NEW topic or merge it with another relevant one.