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Ability to hide / ignore tags

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In the community preferences you can set a list of favourite tags, and questions that are tagged with one of them will be highlighted.

Is there also a way to hide / ignore tags? Questions with a hidden or ignored tag would either not show up at all, or be greyed out. I think this would be useful on some sites where you may simply not be knowledgeable at all in some areas. For example, on Languages & Linguistics I may want to ignore questions about languages that I'm not familiar with at all.

I would expect greying out to be fairly simple to implement since it seems identical to the favourite functionality, just with different styling. But maybe there is a reason why you don't want to implement it / have implemented it in a different place than where I would expect it?

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Monica Cellio‭ wrote over 2 years ago

I don't think there's a specific reason we didn't, other than that no one was asking about it at the time. What should happen if a question has both a tag you list as a favorite and one you ignore?

deleted user wrote over 2 years ago

The OP is mentioning filtering method. If he wants to ignore tag A but follow tag B. But a question have both tag than the question won't show to him.

Monica Cellio‭ wrote over 2 years ago

That's one possibility. If it also has a favorite tag, though, the person might want to see it. So it seems like we need to choose one of:

  1. Favorite overrides ignored (you see it as a favorite)
  2. Ignored overrides favorite (you don't see it or it's grayed out)
  3. Neither applies and you see it as a normal post (favorite and ignore cancel each other out)
celtschk‭ wrote over 2 years ago

One option would be to give it a score, like +1 for each favourite and -1 for each ignored tag. If the total score is positive, highlight, if it is negative, grey out, of it is zero, show as normal.

Keelan‭ wrote over 2 years ago

Another option would be to use compatible styles (assuming an ignored tag does not hide the question completely). For example if the question were in greyscale when it has a hidden tag, you can still highlight a favourited tag. Mockup: the 'etymology' tag would be favourited.

Monica Cellio‭ wrote over 2 years ago

Oh, I like that -- highlight the tag, not the whole post section.