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Ignored and watched tags seem broken
For the longest time my ignored tags have been working but today they are not.
They work on the home page but not the /questions page. However, if you choose the "Gray out questions" option ...
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Show tag popup when hovering tags in Watched or Ignored sections
When I hover a tag in the Watched Tags section, it only shows a tooltip "show questions tagged '[tag name]'":
However, it will be more useful to have the full tag popup appear there, same ...
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Restrict height of the 'Watched Tags' sidebar widget (same as Ignored)
I favourite/watch a lot of tags on Arqade, mainly due to the nature of tags on that site; every game has it's own tag.
I've noticed however, as I 'watch' more and more tags, that the widget on the ...
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Hide questions with ignored tags in Favorite Tags filter
My favourite page on Stack Exchange is /filters, which by default shows the "Favorite Tags" built-in filter. This filter is great, because it includes all favourite/"watched" tags ...
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Favourite Tag + Ignored Tag in the Filtered Questions overview not doing what I'd like/expect
I really like to check out the Filtered Questions page based on Favourite Tags (this place) but am annoyed by the inclusion of questions with tags I've ignored.
To give a concrete example, I love ...
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Get rid of special characters when searching for a tag
According to this, there is a limited number of valid characters for a tag. If we don't allow special characters in a tag name in the first place, shouldn't we get rid of special characters (such as ~,...
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Wildcard tags can no longer be watched or ignored
While editing my watched tags list on RPG.SE, I received an unexpected error message saying that "gm does not exist on this site".
The reason why the error was so surprising was that I never had gm ...
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Need some way to easily clear all ignored/favorite tags
I've just found a way to add many tags to ignored/favorite (sorry, it's called watched now, but I will call it on ol' manner) list by just select all text on the page Ctrl+A and pasting it to the ...
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Does "intags:mine" no longer work above certain number of favorite/ignored tags?
Is there a limit on the number of tags after which searching using intags:mine no longer works?
On a local meta a user complained that this search is not working for him. Since this user has many ...
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Can Favorite Tags become Ignored without changing that setting?
Recently, I noticed that the number of Unanswered questions with my tags on a site had suddenly changed from about 2,500 to around 750.
I have traced it back to my "favorite" tag having been ...
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Clarifying how Ignored Tags work
I have two questions regarding Ignored Tags:
At the bottom of the questions page, I see this message:
Hiding questions because of your Ignored Tags preferences for tags:
with a list of my Ignored ...
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Is there a way to completely ignore every question but the questions in your favorite tags?
Is there a way to completely ignore every question but the questions in your favorite tags?
I already tried to put a * in ignored tags, but this just removes all questions.
I understand from the ...
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Advanced favorite and ignored tags management
Currently the management of favorite and ignored tags is clunky and error-prone. Deletion of several tags at once requires an unnecessary amount of random mouse movement, which could be accomplished ...
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Cross-site management of favorite and ignored tags
I find the favorite and ignored tags a very useful feature, and I use many of the same tags for several different subforums. The problem is that tags are usually not added in bulk, but as I browse on ...
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Sequencing of favorite vs ignored tags
I have a favorite tag : arduino-duemilanove
This relates to the Arduino board the Duemilanove.
I have an ignored tag: arduino-due
These are totally different boards (devices), despite the ...
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Inconsistent behavior when adding duplicate tag into Favorites/Ignored Tags List
Step to reproduce
Add some tags (between 6-10) into Ignored/Favorites tags
Click the area outside the textbox then refresh the page
Add the same tags into Ignored/Favorites tags.
Repeate step 1-3 ...
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Double "remove" icon on Favorite & Ignored tags
This is actually a really non-breaking, minor issue, but just for the sake of being documented.
So, if you don't have favorite tags, you'll be represented with "Add a favorite tag" link. This link ...
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Change behavior for excluded tags when an included tag is present [duplicate]
Summary: The behavior for "ignored tags" seems to be: if any tag for a question is in the "ignore" list then don't display the question. I think it would be an improvement to reverse that logic: if a ...
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Wildchars in tags preferences [duplicate]
There are favorite and ignored tags in Preferences. They need to explicitly list your tags. I would like to have wild char support here, so for example *PHP* will find PHP, PHP3, PHP4, PHPUnit, ...
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Changing a tag from favorite to ignored using tag dropdown removes the tag from favourites but doesn't add it to ignored
I noticed today that when I changed a tag from favorite to ignored, the tag is removed from the favorites but is not added to ignored tags
As in the screenshot. I changed the c# tag from favorite to ...
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More advanced favourited / ignored tag system
In short, I would like to not see any php questions, except those also tagged with algorithm.
I currently ignore and hide the php tag, and I've favourited the algorithm tag.
But this is insufficient ...
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Allow sorting questions in the featured tab by favorite/ignored tag
Please consider letting us order featured questions in a way that is based on your list of favorite and ignored tags:
Favorites-First Sort - orders questions that have one or more tags among your ...
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Favorite Tags - excluding tag
Favorite Tags works well to jump straight to required lists, but there is need of multiple tags filtering with expressions.
This is achievable in search box, e.g. [webgl] -[three.js].
But those ...
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Focus the text box when you click to edit Favorite/Ignored Tags
To edit your favorite or ignored tags, you browse to the site home page, go to the list on the right side of the page, and click Edit. This causes a text box to appear that lets you enter a new ...
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Eliminate the preferences tab in the user profile
The preferences tab in my user profile here looks like the following.
There is a single, actual preference in there, the option to hide ignored tags entirely, and a whole lot of whitespace. The ...
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How can I backup my “Favorite Tags” and “Ignored Tags” lists?
My lists of “Favorite Tags” and “Ignored Tags” are long and carefully crafted. How can I back them up just in case Stack Exchange would forget them?
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Things that would erase your “Favorite Tags” list
When I was doing normal editing of my set of “Ignored Tags”, the set of “Favorite Tags” was suddenly emptied.
I suggest that if any of your tag lists is more than you can easily remember, make a ...
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Ability to add tag to favorites/ignore list within tags
It would be nice to be able to immediately add a tag to your favorites or ignore list, from the tag itself (by dropdown, context menu or even drag and drop).
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Misaligned headings on Favorite & Ignored Tags prefs
I don't have any favorite or ignored tags here on meta, and the changes recently rolled out seem to have messed up the alignment when I got to my profile -> prefs. (Happens in Chrome and Safari on OS ...
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Minor layout bug related to big black buttons [duplicate]
Here it is!
What? You can't find it?
How about now?
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Add thousands separator in suggested tags
Is it possible to add thousands separator in suggested list of tags that appears when adding Favorite or Ignored tags?
To improve readability (of course) and to be coherent with the rest of the site.
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Why can I both Favorite and Ignore the same same tag?
Is there a reason it is possible to add the same tag to both the Favorite tags and Ignored Tags lists? If a tag exists in both, what is the expected behavior - which gets precedence?
(Update: A ...
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Without deleting tags: reorder favorite/ignored tags
This related question asks if it is possible to reorder tags and the one answer is that it can be done be deleting them and re-adding them in the desired order.
My question is if there is currently ...
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Will a tagged question which is both favorite and ignored still show up? [duplicate]
On stackoverflow I have Emacs as a favorite tag, and many tags involved with HTML ignored. However, there could be the scenerio of an HTML user wanting advice about Emacs, I would still like to see ...
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Move the Add Favorite / Ignored Tags boxes to the top
It seems that most people who use the ignored tags feature end up with a fairly long list of those tags.
Although one can toggle specific tags, it is sometimes necessary to add new ignored tags ...
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Favourite / Ignored tags conflict
Let's say I have java as a favourite tag and c# as an ignored tag.
If somebody tags a question with both java and c#, it is ignored and does not appear in my list of newest questions.
I would ...
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More responsive stars in tag popups
One of the things I like about Stack Overflow is how fast everything is, from loading time to interactive tasks - posting comments, voting, etc.
The one task a bit at odd with all this is the ignore/...
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Filtering unanswered questions on Stack Overflow
By default, the Unanswered section displays tags which are not included in my "ignored tags" list. I keep adding new tags to my ignore-list all the time, but since there are so many tags, I keep ...
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Can we please have the system automatically alphabetize tags in our sidebars? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Sort Favourite Tags on the sidebar in alphabetical order
Background
This question is related to Ability to sort/reorder interesting/ignored tags in sidebar, but the feature ...
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Does the "x questions with activity" feature honor ignored/favorite tags?
I'm not sure if the new "x questions with activity" feature does honor the ignored/favorite tags, because sometimes I get a notification for questions which should be ignored, but are not marked as ...
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What happens if a question is both tagged with favorite and ignored tag?
Suppose there is a question tagged both with Java (favorite tag) and Algorithm (ignored tag, don't show it option). What would be the SO behaviour? Would I still see the question (preferred way to go) ...
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Idea For Ignored Tags
This is more of a feature request than a question.
Stack Overflow is such an all-encompassing site for an extremely large quantity of technologies. Oftentimes, like myself, we choose to ignore many ...
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Add an edit mode for favorite tags
It happened a few times that I accidentally clicked the on a favourite tag, which removed that tag. Sometimes I open multiple tag pages, without knowing which tag I just removed. Some other time it's ...
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Favorite / Ignored tags interface not working?
Since today, the interface to ignore or add tags to favorites is no longer working for me. When I click on the star once, it adds a strange tag to my favorites - something like ...
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Add button for adding favourite / ignored tag slightly cut off [duplicate]
See the following screen-shot:
That's Firefox 5 on Ubuntu 11.04. It could be that I don't have the intended font and may be falling back to one that has different character widths?
Specified font ...
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Optionally Include Favorite and Ignored Tags in User Profiles
There is a lot of good information that can be gleaned about a person if you could see their "Favorite Tags" and their "Ignored Tags." You would see what topics are relevant to the person's interests ...
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Homogenize tag hover behavior
Currently, when I hover over a tag in a question on the main question page, a popup comes up describing the tag, the number of followers, letting me subscribe to the tag, favorite / unfavorite / etc. ...
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Add to favorite and ignored tags from tag's tooltip
In the tag tooltip could be two "links" for adding to favorite tags and to ignored tags. User could more quickly add ignored or favorite tags.
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Favorite Tags buttons need more padding
If you have a single-letter favourite tag, e.g. c, then the red "X" to remove the tag is much bigger than the tag name. I often accidentally remove the tag when I only intended to click on it.
Can ...
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Reordering Favorite Tags and Ignored Tags lists?
Is it possible for me to reorder my lists of “Favorite Tags” and “Ignored Tags”?
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