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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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The remove icon on interesting tags is easily misclicked
The safe clickable area for selecting a favorite tag (especially for one letter tags, illustrated above) is quite small compared to the size of the remove button right next to it. Considering that ...
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Ability to sort/reorder interesting/ignored tags in sidebar
I have many tags marked as "interesting" and others as "ignored". (I use Java at work, I'm a Cocoa guy by night, any anything dealing with Windows/.NET/C# simply doesn't apply to me.) When tags are ...
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What do "watched tags" and "ignored tags" do?
What are watched tags and ignored tags? How do they work?
What are tag subscriptions?
What are interesting tags?
On Stack Overflow, the content of the main page question list appears to be influenced ...
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Confirm dialog when an interesting (or ignored) tag is to be deleted
In the SO main page you can add/remove your own 'Interesting Tags' and 'Ignored Tags'. Well, I navigate fairly often by the 'Interesting Tags' to find questions of interest. I've arranged the '...
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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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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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Mark tag as "interesting" or "ignored" from that tag's page
Right now, if I want to add a tag to my list of "interesting" or "ignored" tags, I have to go to the home page, type in the tag name, and click Add.
I think this would work better if, while I was on ...
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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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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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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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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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What happened to the ignore option in the mouseover on the tags?
In the old pop-up when you hovered over a tag in the question list, there was a link to add to favorites and a link to ignore the tag. In the new design of this pop-up, there's a star to add to ...
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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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Provide "Keep Interesting Tags" option when "Hide Ignored Tags" enabled
Currently when the "Hide Ignored Tags" option is enabled in the preferences, any question with an ignored AND an interesting tag is hidden. This keeps many "interesting" questions from being seen ...
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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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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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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.
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Allow wildcards in ignored/interesting tags
I'd like to be able to specify an interesting or ignored tag via a wildcard. May tags which cover similar topics have common roots. For example
windows
windows7
windows-vista
windows-xp
windows-...
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Easier way to add a FAVOURITE or IGNORE Tag
Currently, if we wish to ADD or IGNORE a favourite tag, we need to manually enter this data.
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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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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Collapsible interesting/ignored tags sections
I have added pretty many ignored tags, so the relevant section on the right side is quite large. In fact, it is so large that question page vertical size is usually determined by the right auxiliary ...
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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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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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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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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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Restore the "Hide Ignored Tags" preference to the Interesting Tags box
When the Interesting/Ignored tags feature was first added, the preference to hide questions was in the sidebar.
I liked this, since most of the time I don't mind the questions just being greyed out.. ...
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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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Have "Interesting Tags" that are combinations of tags
There are many tags that can have multiple uses. This is fine and good. However, it would help in finding questions that I can actually answer if there was a way to join tags for my Interesting Tags ...
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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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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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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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1.5-screen distance between question list and pager
Description
I was very confused by the 1.5-screen distance between the bottom line of the list of unanswered questions and the pages-switcher (pager). This is caused due to very long list of ...
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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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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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Add advanced search option to search within a user's Interesting/Favorite/Ignored Tags
I think we should be able to search with our Interesting/Favorite Tags or our Ignored Tags, something like:
myfavtags:1 "test"
or
myigntags:1 "test"
I'm open to other ways of doing this also.
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Can't add interesting tag that is a substring of existing interesting tag
It seems you can't "+Interesting" a tag if you already have an interesting tag thats starts with the target tag.
For example, if you have "asp.net-mvc-2" as an existing tag the system won't let you ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Tags: If "A" in My Tags, and "B" in Ignore, and a post has "A" and "B", I'd like to see it [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Provide “Keep Interesting Tags” option when “Hide Ignored Tags” enabled
But I don't.
Is there a setting I can toggle to get that behavior?
If not, I'...
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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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'Interesting' and 'Ignored' Wildcard Tags Should Recognize Synonyms
I think it would be nice if wildcard tags defined as interesting or ignored by a user would recognize synonyms.
I'll use an example from the Gaming site: [nintendo-wii] and [wii] (These are obvious ...
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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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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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