I got this email and wanted to share the idea with you all: Right now, tagging works this way: 1) I'm testing tagging, so I tag a title "test" 2) I go into tag moderation and see that, yay, my tag is there waiting, so it works! 3) I can choose to approve the tag test. This means anyone can apply the term test to anything in the catalog now. Not ideal since test can mean a lot of things. Perhaps a student is just using it to mark items they're using to make a test for a project. Not a good use of tags and I won't know that they've done it because I've already approved the tag. Lost my teachable moment. 4) So I reject it, because that's my only option. But now that means I can't use it to test again in the future unless I later go in, then approve it, then use it, then reject it again. I'm just proposing a step that allows you a third option. You have a tag sitting there. You don't want to approve or reject it, you just want to make it go away in this instance.
Just because a tag has been rejected doesn't mean no one can tag something with that tag again. As far as I can tell it just means it doesn't show up in the public tag cloud and doesn't appear on the detail pages.
I would add to a general list of improvements the ability to edit tags. Definitely this would be useful for tags in moderation to correct spelling errors. It would also be amazing to have the ability to edit approved tags. An application for this would be, say, someone tags a bunch of books Pulitzer2011 but later decides to keep doing this and wants to drop the 2011. All of this would be great on the staff side, but useful on the public side, too. Afterall, folks logged into the OPAC can edit their comments, so why not their tags, with the option for changes to go back through moderation.
I think it still applies. Should you choose later to want a tag to display publicly that had been previously rejected, it's extra steps that aren't necessary if you never really wanted to "reject" in the first place.
Is this still valid? Once a tag has been approved or rejected, it's status can be changed over and over.