diff --git a/tildes/alembic/versions/b761d0185ca0_groups_add_important_topic_tags.py b/tildes/alembic/versions/b761d0185ca0_groups_add_important_topic_tags.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ca4c115
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tildes/alembic/versions/b761d0185ca0_groups_add_important_topic_tags.py
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+"""Groups: add important_topic_tags
+
+Revision ID: b761d0185ca0
+Revises: 679090fd4977
+Create Date: 2019-10-26 01:51:21.231463
+
+"""
+from alembic import op
+import sqlalchemy as sa
+
+from tildes.lib.database import TagList
+
+
+# revision identifiers, used by Alembic.
+revision = "b761d0185ca0"
+down_revision = "679090fd4977"
+branch_labels = None
+depends_on = None
+
+
+def upgrade():
+    op.add_column(
+        "groups",
+        sa.Column(
+            "important_topic_tags", TagList(), server_default="{}", nullable=False
+        ),
+    )
+
+
+def downgrade():
+    op.drop_column("groups", "important_topic_tags")
diff --git a/tildes/scss/modules/_topic.scss b/tildes/scss/modules/_topic.scss
index a87e2f0..9743436 100644
--- a/tildes/scss/modules/_topic.scss
+++ b/tildes/scss/modules/_topic.scss
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@
 .topic-tags {
   display: flex;
   flex-wrap: wrap;
+  align-items: center;
   margin: 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/tildes/tildes/models/group/group.py b/tildes/tildes/models/group/group.py
index a27b72f..6d13e73 100644
--- a/tildes/tildes/models/group/group.py
+++ b/tildes/tildes/models/group/group.py
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ class Group(DatabaseModel):
         Boolean, nullable=False, server_default="false"
     )
     common_topic_tags: List[str] = Column(TagList, nullable=False, server_default="{}")
+    important_topic_tags: List[str] = Column(
+        TagList, nullable=False, server_default="{}"
+    )
 
     # Create a GiST index on path as well as the btree one that will be created by the
     # index=True/unique=True keyword args to Column above. The GiST index supports
diff --git a/tildes/tildes/models/topic/topic.py b/tildes/tildes/models/topic/topic.py
index ed0c3e8..ca9acc6 100644
--- a/tildes/tildes/models/topic/topic.py
+++ b/tildes/tildes/models/topic/topic.py
@@ -165,13 +165,15 @@ class Topic(DatabaseModel):
         """Return only the topic's "important" tags."""
         global_important_tags = ["nsfw", "spoiler"]
 
+        important_tags = set(self.group.important_topic_tags + global_important_tags)
+
         # used with startswith() to check for sub-tags
-        global_important_prefixes = tuple([f"{tag}." for tag in global_important_tags])
+        important_prefixes = tuple([f"{tag}." for tag in important_tags])
 
         return [
             tag
             for tag in self.tags
-            if tag in global_important_tags or tag.startswith(global_important_prefixes)
+            if tag in important_tags or tag.startswith(important_prefixes)
         ]
 
     @property