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Currently, if we wish to ADD or IGNORE a favourite tag, we need to manually enter this data.

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It would be so much easier if we can do this via clicking on an ajax link in the modal popup instead.

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Finally, for bonus points, would be great if we could export our lists as csv. don't know how many times mates have asked for my 100 odd Ignore Tag list.

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  • +1: I was about to ask the same question. I'm an active ignorer and it's really painful to manually write the tag name down when I want to ignore something.
    – Gerstmann
    Sep 15, 2011 at 8:07
  • Oh wow - just found out a suggestion (not saying I'm the only one who suggested this, though), was actually implemented!
    – Pure.Krome
    Nov 7, 2014 at 3:44

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The star on the tag popup is clickable. Guess what it does. ;)

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    what about ignoring? (i have around 100 ignores with around 20 fav's)
    – Pure.Krome
    Mar 18, 2011 at 0:49
  • There is no easier way. I myself don't have anything in the ignored tags anyway.
    – user138231
    Mar 18, 2011 at 0:52
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    Gee that is intuative
    – EvilTeach
    Dec 3, 2011 at 14:24
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    Since shortly, it's possible to ignore the tag by that star as well. See also meta.stackexchange.com/questions/114124/idea-for-ignored-tags/…
    – user138231
    Dec 16, 2011 at 23:27
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    That is really weak UI design. "Ignore" should be there as an explicit option.
    – spring
    Jun 10, 2012 at 0:04
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It used to be possible from some of the places a tag was used (but not all) via the dropdown, but the dropdown's now used differently and “no, I don't want to know about this” got lost as a possible user reaction. Which was a shame; ignoring some tags is a vital part of taming the stream of questions to levels which I can have a reasonable amount of expertise in. Given that there is a star for marking interesting (not that I think it is very mnemonic, but I have no suggestion to replace it) it would be nice if there was a convenient never-interesting icon in the box too (e.g., a dustbin that glows red when the mouse pointer is over it?)

OTOH, there's an advantage to typing a name in the Ignore box; it allows the use of wildcards.

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Was just about to suggest the same thing. Seems like a secret gem really, as you have to hover to discover it.

For anyone else finding this:
Hover over the tag you want to change, on the pop-up box hover over the star (silver, gold, or red) and click the star to cycle through the options:

  • Silver = Normal
  • Gold = Favourite
  • Red = Ignored

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