Content Creation Abusive tags?

[joelr]

The ingenuity of forum users is so inspiring 😄

What would you do if a user adds abusive tags, and it's not easy to backtrace who added the abusive tags?

Block or blacklist tags to prevent abuse and hate

Sometimes members abuse the tagging functionality to add hateful or abusive tags to content. Or to a specific user's content within the context of harassment. It would be useful if we could blacklist abusive tags and also if we could see who added the tag and when. Reporting a tag should be...

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[Tracy]

That is just one of the many reasons that I tend to not use tags on a system.
On NodeBB you can restrict tags in the different areas to a list that you have created, much like Prefixes in Xenforo.

 

[IC-Essentials]

That's why I like the approach in IC5 where only admins can create tags, which the users can use.
I admit that it's also not 100% optimal, what if a user wants to use a tag which isn't available yet? He needs to contact the admins or suggest it in public, so I created a small tool allowing members to suggest them via a public accessible form, where the admin than can approve them.

Tag Suggestions

Invision Community 5 has removed the ability to allow members to set own tags while creating content, which is a problem for many communities. I'm not a fan of bringing this feature back, there was a reason why we did it this way, but what if your members could suggest new tags and the administra...

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[joelr]

That's why I like the approach in IC5 where only admins can create tags, which the users can use.
I admit that it's also not 100% optimal, what if a user wants to use a tag which isn't available yet? He needs to contact the admins or suggest it in public, so I created a small tool allowing members to suggest them via a public accessible form, where the admin than can approve them.

Tag Suggestions

Invision Community 5 has removed the ability to allow members to set own tags while creating content, which is a problem for many communities. I'm not a fan of bringing this feature back, there was a reason why we did it this way, but what if your members could suggest new tags and the administra...

www.ic-essentials.com

The debate over open or closed tags is something that I struggle with. Many years ago on my main community (which uses IPS), I switched to an open tag system inspired by Twitter. It was definitely and overwhelmingly the right decision in hindsight. There is no way I would have been able to - nor would I want to have spent my precious admin time - approving or managing the thousands of useful and identifiable new tags.

Are there generic, useless, frivolous, or mistake tags? Yes. But on balance, I think an open tagging system is so much powerful especially for larger communities that have evolved to a point of being community driven in content creation (versus early stage communities where admins push most content). An admin simply cannot imagine or forecast or predefined the universe of all tags great and small. A closed tagging system is highly restrictive, and IPS vision of tagging in v5 is something that I'm cautiously hesitant about.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I never really thought that people would be able to abuse the tag system to mess with other members before. I guess it's because I never bother with tags whenever I make threads on any forum. I'm surprised vBulletin has a feature where you can see who made what tags but Xenforo doesn't when the Xenforo devs worked on vBulletin in the past.