Tagging rights for specific users?

[Sujan (Jan P.)]

Is it possible to give normal users the rights to tag (change and add) topics?

[david (David Taylor)]

Yes, go to the site settings in your admin panel, then choose “Tags” on the left.

You want min trust to create tag and min trust level to tag topics

[Sujan (Jan P.)]

Is this also possible for specific users (or groups of users)?

[david (David Taylor)]

I don’t think so.

There are some advanced options with tag groups that might help solve the problem in another way:

Set up structured tagging with tag groups and category tag restrictions

Tag support is a core feature of Discourse. In this How-To I’ll go through setting up a tag schema like Car Talk uses. We’ll want to achieve these things: Tags for car makes and car models. Only allow the car make and model tags to be used in certain categories. Car model tags can only be chosen if the matching car make tag is used. Prerequisites First, we need to enable tags in the settings: [tag enabling] In a schema where we’re strict about how tags are used, we should prevent most pe…

You can also set some tags to staff-only using the staff tags site setting.