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I was thinking that it would be useful to be able to add, edit the tags to a topic by anyone after it's been created as the discussion evolves. Right now you can only set tags while creating the topic, so there's no possibility for the tags to evolve with the discussion.

I'm not that worried about ownership of the topic/tags, if feel like the community would be respectful and would only want to contribute to the discussion. But I'd like to hear what others think about this.

This sounds a lot like the way the Mediawiki tagging extension we have works. How about if people can add tags but only the original poster can remove them?

This sounds a lot like the way the Mediawiki tagging extension we have works. How about if people can add tags but only the original poster can remove them?

I think this makes the most sense, but it requires more work, as I'd need a separate UI for the topic starter and topic replier. If I can just reproduce the tags textbox on the reply page just as it appears on the new topic page (letting anyone add or remove) it would be easiest. How important is the difference?

I think either way is fine and that we should go with what's easiest. If people abuse this functionality and we get complaints, we can revisit the decision.