# Staff tags vs allowed tags/tag groups

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-tags-vs-allowed-tags-tag-groups/97883
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 23, 2018, 10:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-tags-vs-allowed-tags-tag-groups/97883 "2018-09-23T10:41:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![negishi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/negishi/32/111785_2.png) [@negishi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/negishi)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2018, 10:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-tags-vs-allowed-tags-tag-groups/97883/1 "2018-09-23T10:41:37Z")

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With staff tags now being part of the tag groups settings: Is it possible to activate staff tags globally as of now without restricting categories on tag groups and having to activate the staff tag group in every single category seperately ?

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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: [September 23, 2018, 10:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-tags-vs-allowed-tags-tag-groups/97883/2 "2018-09-23T22:44:51Z")

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Not sure, what do you think @neil?

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### Author: ![neil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/neil/32/102150_2.png) [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2018, 3:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-tags-vs-allowed-tags-tag-groups/97883/3 "2018-09-24T03:47:52Z")

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No there isn’t. Maybe we need an option to have a tag group apply to all categories.

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### Author: ![negishi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/negishi/32/111785_2.png) [@negishi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/negishi)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-tags-vs-allowed-tags-tag-groups/97883/4 "2018-09-25T21:35:16Z")

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I would surely appreciate that.

Thinking on it, a more nuanced way to apply allowed tag groups to categories would help too. As it seems now I disallow every tag that is not in the applied (staff) tag group and that includes tag creation on topics.

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2021, 4:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-tags-vs-allowed-tags-tag-groups/97883/5 "2021-06-01T16:03:50Z")

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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: [June 1, 2021, 7:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-tags-vs-allowed-tags-tag-groups/97883/6 "2021-06-01T19:21:10Z")

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Hmm. So if I am understanding this correctly, staff tags are always per tag group @neil?

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### Author: ![neil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/neil/32/102150_2.png) [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2021, 8:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-tags-vs-allowed-tags-tag-groups/97883/7 "2021-06-01T20:35:12Z")

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Staff tags are always defined in a tag group like so:

 ![2021-06-01_16-33](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/e/c/ecca0b071111e0f1f1a8cabd2ea5ad43141cce72.png)

We have two groups like that here on meta.