# User can apply staff tag, staff can't remove
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-can-apply-staff-tag-staff-cant-remove/89809
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [June 13, 2018, 8:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-can-apply-staff-tag-staff-cant-remove/89809 "2018-06-13T20:09:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@bartv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bartv)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 8:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-can-apply-staff-tag-staff-cant-remove/89809/1 "2018-06-13T20:09:23Z")
We noticed the following:
- We set up the tag ‘featured’ as staff only (‘Tags are visible to everyone, but only staff can use them’)
- Somehow, some users manage to still apply this tag - I’m talking to them to find out what they did to make this happen. I believe this is a bug, but it’s not the point of this report.
- Messages with the ‘featured’ tag are caught by the system and require approval (which makes sense).
- When a moderator or staff member goes in and removes the tag, then approves, there’s an error (see video below).
I believe that in the last step, the tag isn’t actually removed - which is what causes the error: if I temporarily make ‘featured’ a public tag again, then go into the approval queue, remove the tag and approve the post, it is saved successfully. However, when I view the post in the topics list, the ‘featured’ tag is still there.
[https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/e/7e95899b77c2581f915565e8da83cb06475e216c.mp4](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/e/7e95899b77c2581f915565e8da83cb06475e216c.mp4)
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2018, 10:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-can-apply-staff-tag-staff-cant-remove/89809/3 "2018-06-25T10:58:57Z")
Added on my list to verify and fix.
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2018, 11:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-can-apply-staff-tag-staff-cant-remove/89809/4 "2018-06-26T11:42:05Z")
> [@bartv](#):
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> I believe that in the last step, the tag isn’t actually removed
Yes, I was able to repro this. Staff were not able to remove tags from queued topics, regardless of staff tags or otherwise. Now fixed via:
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> [@bartv](#):
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> Somehow, some users manage to still apply this tag
I was not able to repro this locally. Feel free to create a new #Contribute > Bug topic once you have repro steps.
Thanks for reporting this issue! 👍
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2018, 1:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-can-apply-staff-tag-staff-cant-remove/89809/5 "2018-06-26T13:08:36Z")