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Remove yellow badge around watched tags [duplicate]

I'm trying my best to see these changes with fresh eyes, and not simply be apprehensive about any changes. However, I can't find a justification for making watched tags yellow. To me, bright icons ...
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Why do I see tags that I don't want to watch?

Why do I sometimes see questions with tags that I don't watch on the home page? I dislike it and I always have to add a new tag to my list of ignored tags. Will there be an upgrade to this feature? ...
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With the improvements to tag watching, tag notifications, and custom question lists, is any attention being paid to cross-site discovery?

With the new changes to tag watching with some more changes around notifications coming and new controls to build custom question lists also coming, are there any plans for fixing instances where ...
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'Favorite Tags' is now 'Tag Watching'

tl;dr We rolled out some improvements for how you track the topics you are interested in for your favorite Q&A sites. This feature used to be called Favorite Tags. We are renaming it Tag Watching....
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How can I have additional favorite tags suggested?

I like using the favorite tags feature on Travel.SE, but I suspect there's some tags that I like but I haven't added yet. For example, as of today, I frequently ask about "local-customs", but don't ...
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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 ...
Nick Gammon's user avatar
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Viewing a feed of questions with favourite tags from multiple SE sites?

Is there a way for me to view a feed of questions that have my favourite tags across multiple SE sites? For example, I have the VHDL tag favourited at StackOverflow, Electronic Engineering & Code ...
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Suggestions of problems for users basing on their knowledge/skills/solved problems

Is there a way to suggest the user some problems to solve based on their knowledge/ skills/ suggested answers? Sorry if that topic was already disscussed, I didn't find anythig similiar. :) If not, ...
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How to find the question with tags which i have given in interested tag(not with any other tags)

I need to find the question which I given in interested tag and not other than any tags extactly. Example : if i given java,array as my interested tags i should get only question from those tags ...
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Is there any way I can organize my favorite questions on StackOverflow using self-defined categories?

I use StackOverflow as a core learning tool and questions posted by others(as well as comments) have much-sought information and nuances.Also,the questions posted by me are likely to increase in ...
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When Do I get favorite notification?

I see my favorites tab in profile got notification, but Even If I click newest I don't know what has happened there. I don't know which one got added as favorite..
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ANDing tags together on the favorite tags list

It would be useful to have the ability to favorite the intersection of two tags; that is, only highlight a post if it contains both of the specified tags. Example : We have a tag string and a tag ...
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Is there a way to sort favorite tags?

I was looking at my tags list today and thought that if it was extremely long I might like to find them to view their corresponding questions. Is there a way to sort your favorite tags yourself, most ...
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How about a finer-grained favorite question/tag system? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Double-intensity shading for questions with >1 Interesting tags I like being able to highlight questions with favorite tags. But I'm not 100% happy with it. Since I have ...
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StackOverflow homepage to show only questions from my favourite tags [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Displaying only favorite tags on homepage Can I configure StackOverflow's Homepage to show only questions from my favourite tags ? Say I have added these 4 tags as my ...
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Sort tags by subscribers [closed]

Here are some tags that that been used at least 20,000 times (placing them in the top hundred most frequent tags). I also counted their subscribers (people who have favourited it), and calculated the ...
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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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How can I follow only questions with both [tag A] + [tag B] simultaneously?

How can I follow "tag A + tag B" simultaneously? For instance: windows + python (all questions that include windows AND python); linux + mono (all questions that include linux AND mono); asp.net + ...
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yet another question on interesting questions

When I call http://stackoverflow.com (and I am logged in simultaneously) I get a collection of questions that appear to be tagged by my favorite tags (to a large proportion). There's a tab indicating ...
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Favorite tags have been moved down; can we have them back to the top?

I now have to scroll down one whole page in order to open the tag-specific pages. I find this disturbing. This is how it was and should be.
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Questions I'd expect to show up in my Interesting category not showing

On Stack Overflow, my Interesting category seems pretty accurate but I've noticed a few discrepancies from what I would expect. For example, among my favorite tags is javascript, but I noticed when ...
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How to remove duplicate tags? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What are tag synonyms? How do they work? When I was searching for my favorite tags, I found three tags which are almost identical: java-ee-5, javaee-5 and javaee5. The ...
Balaswamy vaddeman's user avatar
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How do you separate tags you're interested in and tags you have expertise in?

I have one problem which is bothering me in my daily interaction with SO. My list of favourite tags consists mainly of two more or less mutually exclusive groups of tags. Know how topics I want ...
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Notify depopulation of favorite tags

I've been depopulating the proc tag because it's ambiguous, but there's 2 people who are following the tag. Can users tell if their tag is being depopulated, apart from the derth of new questions ...
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One-letter favorite tags are likely to be deleted instead of selected [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: The remove icon on interesting tags is easily misclicked I wondered where I did lost my favorite tag r and then I realized that I must have accidentally clicked on the cross ...
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Where can I find the "Interesting" tab

I just logged into SO on a computer I don't normally use, and after login, the page was showing only questions with my tags, and there was a tab "Interesting" highlighted. Judging from this post and ...
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How to effectively follow new updates on several question tags without external tools?

How would I most efficiently follow the newest questions on SO? As I have understood you can have a feed of them, but is it possible to look the feed with some StackExchange tool? One idea would be ...
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How are questions ordered on the main page of SO?

I was wondering how the questions on the main page of SO are organized. I've read that the default view is simply a "flat list of the most recent (n) questions sorted by activity date" (...
Jeff's user avatar
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Why do php tags shoot up during weekends? [closed]

This has been bugging me for some time. I always like to check the number of tags the top tier languages get on any given day. It always struck me as odd that, while php generally stays at #3 when ...
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Stack Exchange design problem: advanced questions get lost

Take for example the JavaScript tag on Stack Overflow. There is such a flurry of beginner questions that those of us who know the language very well and are interested in answering subtle, advanced ...
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Is there a show only favorite feature? If not, why not? [duplicate]

Is there a way to show only questions with tags that I have selected as favorite? Since this feature obviously doesn't exist, why isn't it implemented?
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remove favorite and ignore tags

how does one remove a favorite tag or an ignore tag? thanks
Ray Tayek's user avatar
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bottom 40% of questions on SO homepage are all in my interesting tags

is this on purpose or can you provide me with the details if avail. pic
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Define your own color of tagged-interesting

I don't like the tagged-interesting css-Class color. It is so glimmering. Would be great to define your own color.
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How is ignored tags / interesting tags implemented

Just out of sheer cusriosity: How is ignored tags / interesting tags implemented? Specifically, filtering of questions is implemented server side or client side?
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Software to notify about interesting tags [duplicate]

Is there any software out there to notify about interesting questions based on my added tags as soon as they chip in?
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Greasemonkey/User-Script Request: Remove "x" links next to “Interesting Tags” [closed]

For whatever reason, I have great difficulty with the Interesting Tags. At least several times a week, I accidentally click the "x" next to a tag, removing it from the list. It's probably ...
James McNellis's user avatar
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Why are "interesting" tags highlighted using JavaScript?

I assume everyone has used the "interesting tags" feature. You select a tag and the questions with selected tag are highlighted by addition of the CSS class tagged-interesting. The highlighting is ...
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How can I see questions about "java" -- no, I mean really about *java*? [closed]

I like to peruse all the questions about the Java language, class libraries, JVM, etc., in part to learn about these things and in part because I have decent expertise on many of these areas to share. ...
Kevin Bourrillion's user avatar
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1 answer
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Add a series of tags at once

Is it possible to add a series of tags to the interesting or ignored tags? For example adding *boring* to ignored tags, would be the same as adding boring-questions, boring-answers and also-boring ...
Veger's user avatar
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Why can a tag be marked both as interesting and ignored at the same time?

Why is it allowed to add the same tag to the interesting and ignored tags' lists?
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Is the color highlighting of "interesting" questions wrong?

I've noticed that the highlight color of "interesting" questions often causes me to subconsciously skip over them - opposite of the intended effect. It makes them look similar to ads that are stuck in ...
Fragsworth's user avatar
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Is it possible to mark the same tag as "Interesting" and "Ignored"?

Can you mark the same tag as both interesting and ignored? If you can, what is the resulting appearance of a question with that tag?
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