Not possible to add a tag to own questons

[VeselinaPeykova]

I noticed today that I cannot find an option for the question creator without moderator privileges to add tags to already created questions.

I clearly remember that this was possible in the past.

Is this change intentional? And why?

This means that it makes no sense to suggest to the OP to adjust the tags in a question.

If this is intentional - the OP will have 2 options:

• Report his/her own question to a moderator requesting an update of the tags;
• Create a new question mentioning the original question in the question body.

IMHO both options create unnecessary workload for the moderators. The second option is actually worse because cross-posting is one of the few remaining rules in this community and it is there for good reasons - for avoiding link jungles, for reducing parallel communications in multiple questions etc.

If there is a link or a menu item for adding tags to your own posted questions - I am struggling to find it and I suppose that the new users will also find it hard to locate it.

I checked in Firefox 70.0.1 (64-bit) and Google Chrome 78.0.3904.108 (Official Build) (64-bit)

[dzmitrysidorkin · Accepted solution]

Hi veselina.peykova,

If Question has at least one answer, OP without moderation permissions can't modify question (as answer may have no sense after question updates).

Thanks,

Dima

[former_member186338 · Accepted solution]

Unfortunately there is no difference between changing question text and the tag assignment!

[VeselinaPeykova · Accepted solution]

But why should adjusting tags be restricted via such criterion?

I can understand the reasoning behind not allowing updates of the question body after an answer is posted but adding secondary tags does not change the meaning of the question, it only changes the audience.

[former_member186338 · Accepted solution]

veselina.peykova

Looks like they don't have api to track changes for question body separately...

[VeselinaPeykova · Accepted solution]

vadim.kalinin I thought that if moderators are able to do this maybe this can be a matter of authorizations. The site is based on AnswerHub; I think the permission is edit own question topics (at least in version 1.8, I could not locate the documentation for 2.0). It might be that AH changed the concept in newer versions - if this is the case this is unfortunate.

[former_member186338 · Accepted solution]

veselina.peykova

Moderators are able to change body text also!

[VeselinaPeykova · Accepted solution]

vadim.kalinin this is true, but it may be a separate permission. In 1.8 it was edit any question.

[former_member186338]

As far as I remember it happened number of months ago...

It depend on time elapsed after creation of question.

Bad idea to my mind.

[VeselinaPeykova]

I saw the comment on your test question and I agree with you - it does not seem like a good idea to allow adding tags only if there are no answers...

[former_member186338]

Yes, question edit is blocked after the first answer!

[former_member186338]

After I have deleted answer - I am able to add tags!