Is it possible to disable certain user roles from creating tags?

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As a site admin, I’d like to have control over things.

I’d like to prevent my contributors and authors ( who generate content for me ) from creating new tags. I don’t want that tag taxonomy to turn into a zoo! Especially when you know that wordpress creates separate terms for apple and Apple! I give them a while list ( of 1000 tags that I want them to cover ) and that’s it. They cannot come up with the 1001st.

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How do I achieve that so that my authors just pick from what I give them?

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  2. This is the most solid answer to this, if anyone ever comes to this post again.

    This this in your functions.php file.

    add_action( 'pre_insert_term', function ( $term, $taxonomy )
{
    return ( 'yourtax' === $taxonomy )
        ? new WP_Error( 'term_addition_blocked', __( 'You are unauthorized to add new terms.' ) )
        : $term;
}, 0, 2 );

    I hope this helps anyone in the future.