Does it matter the order you tag your question

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I recently posted a message and someone edited my message, but all they did was reorder the tags I had already used.

(Edit: they did actually correct one, I just noticed)

Is there any benefits to the order in which you add tags? personally I thought there wasn't any weighting?

I just tested it on this question. They definitely auto-order the tags. — jjnguy, Commented Feb 3, 2011 at 22:41

jball · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-03 22:47:32Z

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They did not just rearrange your tags, they changed one of them slightly.

And, no, the order doesn't matter. (The site will auto-order the tags for you according to tag popularity.)

See the slight difference between asp.net-mvc-3 and asp.net-mvc-3-rc2.

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answered Feb 3, 2011 at 22:36

jjnguy

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@jjnguy: just noticed that myself, but they did reorder, razor was my first tag.
– Luke Duddridge
Commented Feb 3, 2011 at 22:38
@Luke, the order doesn't matter, and the reason the tags were reordered I'm sure was because the site auto sorts the tags by use. So tags with more use go first on the post.
– jjnguy
Commented Feb 3, 2011 at 22:39
@jjinguy I don't know if you should encourage my OCD behaviour with gratefulness :)
– jball
Commented Feb 3, 2011 at 22:49
Didn't know that, so they just put the most popular one on the <title>?
– Trufa
Commented Feb 3, 2011 at 22:50
@Trufa, yeah. They make sure the popular tag is in the title. And they order tags by popularity.
– jjnguy
Commented Feb 3, 2011 at 22:52

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Jeff Atwood · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-03 22:52:56Z

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Tags are ordered by frequency from left to right.

On metas, the mod-only tag, if present, will always be on the far left followed by any required tags.

answered Feb 3, 2011 at 22:52

Jeff Atwood

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I just noticed a revision history that shows a changed order of tags: [self-answer] [discussion] into the order described above: [discussion] [self-answer]. So: am I right to assume that tags are ordered when saving? (Rather than when rendering?)
– Arjan
Commented Feb 4, 2011 at 17:18
@arjan correct they are ordered at time of save
– Jeff Atwood
Commented Feb 4, 2011 at 21:23

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