Ability to block/warn about certain combinations of tags

Question

We already have blocked tags and tag warnings, but we need to expand this feature to block or warn about certain combinations of tags, not just the presence/absence of a certain tag.

This argument stems off of the problem where multiple tags are necessary, like with minecraft-commands. We could have something like:

This example was from this argument.

Here, the tag would be blocked until you add one of the other tags that are required with it. We could have a combination block on minecraft-commands unless the question also has minecraft-java-edition or minecraft-bedrock-edition. This will catch people making the common mistake before it happens, saving them from having to wait long periods of time as their question is closed and reopened.

We could do this also with combination tag warnings:

If implemented, this should be used sparingly, only for commonly mistaken tags. It should not be used for obviously wrong things that no one would actually do (like blocking the combination keep-talking-and-nobody-explodes papers-please)

Answer 1

I agree, the functionality to block or warn based on tags would be useful, but my understanding is that this functionality already exists.

According to this post on Meta SE:

...there is a special field in the site settings where one needs to add a regex for the title, body or tags and specify the text that will be shown when the regex returns true.

It should be possible using Regex pattern matching to detect the scenarios above, and block/warn based on that.

I agree with your last point, stuff like this should be used sparingly. Do you think it's worth raising your scenarios above as tag-warning-requests? Do we often get questions that only use the minecraft-commands tag? Or that use both the Java and Bedrock edition tags?

If so, assuming community support - we should be able to add status-review to those requests, and the SE developers will be able to review and potentially add it for us.