Watched Tags
To watch a tag, do one of the following:
- In the tag’s tooltip, click on the "Watch Tag" button.
- On the main page’s sidebar, click on Watch Tag
- On the main page’s sidebar, click on edit next to Watched Tags
- On
/users/preferences, use the respective field in the Tags section.
Note that you can use wildcards in the latter three.
This has the following effects:
- Questions with these tags become highlighted on the front page.
- Questions with new activity are shown on stackexchange.com/filters.
- In the review queues, questions from these tags are shown to you before other questions.
- On Stack Overflow, this affects how questions are displayed on the home page (Recent questions) and the various questions pages.
Also known as followed tags; formerly known as interesting tags and favorite tags.
Ignored Tags
To ignore a tag, do one of the following:
- In the tag’s tooltip, click on the "Ignore Tag" button.
- On the main page’s sidebar, click on edit next to Favorite Tags.
- On
/users/preferences, use the respective field in the Tags section.
Note that you can use wildcards in the latter two.
This has the following effects:
- By default, questions with these tags are shown faded; they are still visible but less prominent. It is possible to hide them completely, for more details see: How do I hide posts matching my ignored tags?
- On Stack Overflow, this affects how questions are displayed on the home page (Recent questions) and the various questions pages.
Subscribing to a tag
To subscribe to a tag:
- Click the subscribe button in the tag’s tooltip.
This will cause you to receive mails about activity in those tags.
Note that you can also obtain RSS feeds of recent activity on a tag at various places.
See also
Expressing Your Tag Preferences
