Lower the Requirement for Editing Tags

[Falafel]

As of now, modifying tags of others’ topic is restricted to Regulars (Trust Level 3 users).

From past discussions it looks like a fair share of the responsibility falls onto these 51 members. This is not enough imo. Curating tags is a community effort and I believe it needs to be accessible to more users with a wide range of interests.

@hugecat

anyone trust level 3 can make new tags

@hugecat

And anyone trust level 3+ can edit tags of existing topics.

@hugecat

And yeah, tag management is hard since higher level users can create their own and the usage isn’t strict. If some trust_level_3 people want to fix this, you have the ability to edit tags of any topic.

I propose to lower the requirement for editing tags, or adjusting the requirements for Trust Level 3 so it includes a wider user base. (There are active scripters who posts scripts daily but are not considered Regular by the system)

[hugecat]

If it helps, there is one setting that controls all of these:

Allow users in this group to edit other users’ topic titles, tags, and categories

[Falafel]

New Script or User Category Suggestion: Community/Scripts

We don’t have complete control over what the trust levels can do, but it’s definitely quite flexible in what we can do with it. As to the requirements, I fully agree that the requirements are too strict - I’ve changed the topic/post view percentages from 25% to 5%. 25% was reasonable like 18 months ago when the forum was smaller. I don’t think it should be zero since people should still need to be active to maintain TL3. @Falafel where did you find that list - I just want to make sure I updat…