Can you un-tag posts to re-tag them?

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Jason R
6:50pm, October 17, 2007

We had a customer ask this question because they are rolling out a new tagging scheme and wanted to update some older content.  Here was our response.

Thanks for the question.  We don’t allow people to un-tag discussions since users may have watchlists based on the tags or the discussions that could be compromised if we deleted tags.  IAlso, it doesn't hurt to over tag posts; the alternative is worse.  Instead, we suggest you add the new tags to discussions you want to highlight (adding tags to existing discussions is easy).  Also, put together a post explaining the tag structure you propose.  Use a post at the group level and post it using “email to all” so everyone sees it.  A site manager will need to post it if you do the send all option.   

If you follow this process, a subset of the older posts will have the new tags and all the new ones.  Also, if you update older posts, those tags will show as more recent and have priority when people are posting new discussions.  The tag group should normalize around the new scheme quickly.

 

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