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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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The feature is good but we were thinking how we should implement it. I was looking at our new design (Mock) again. T …

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Proposal: - If a question has at least one tag that you've marked as a favorite, it's highlighted (as now). - If a …

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One approach, asymmetric with respect to the favourites, would be to treat an ignored tag as equivalent to X downvotes f …

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How should interactions work? (6 comments)

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The feature is good but we were thinking how we should implement it.

I was looking at our new design (Mock) again. There was some method of filtering. The idea came to my mind after seeing that.

We should implement "show if question has tag A" and "don't show if question has tag B". Confusion arise when a question has both tag.

What if we add some kind of priority method? Like as, tag A has priority 4 (which was added by user not mod or someone else) and tag B has priority -3 so just show the question since total priority is positive.

Again, problem arise if both tag has same priority so they cancel out. This time I will give my opinion, no matter what we add sooner or later they will cancel out. But sometimes, we hate topic A that's why we want to ignore that. Like as, a person who just started learning Newtonian Mechanics they won't understand Quantum Mechanics that's simple. Since he wants to ignore QM tag than don't show a question which include both cause I won't understand anything of QM. But I may understand little bit since they are talking about Newtonian Mechanics also.

If we show that question than, the user (who wants to ignore QM tag now) will think that "I don't understand any single word here so it was completely meaningless to show the question." But if he understand little bit about QM than his priority might be around -1 or -2. So my suggestion is don't show a question if priority rate cancels.

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Keelan‭ wrote about 3 years ago

If I understand you correctly the user would have to maintain the priorities. I worry this may be too complicated. I would at least give the option to maintain two simple lists (which can be translated into two separate priorities by the system), with the option to 'upgrade' to a priority system, if that's what you want.

There is a premise here that whether a post should be shown or not can be expressed as a sum of tag priorities. It is not clear to me that this is the case. A user may want more complicated rules, like "display questions with tag X only if Y is also present". How far do you want to take this and how are you going to keep the UI simple?

Many of these problems do not arise if you do not hide questions, only grey them out (or otherwise make them less prominent). It is then easy to skip over them, but you can see them if you want to. I think that hiding questions (which I originally suggested) is not such a good idea in the end.

(PS the new design looks good!)

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The default value of priorities will be 1 or -1. Since a "new user" won't have deeper understanding of maintaining priorities. I agree that these problems do not arise if we don't hide question but suppose, recently there's 20 question were posted about Chinese in LL so will it be easier to find your favourite question? you will have to scroll sometimes you may think that there's no question with that tag so you may just visit some other site since you think that there's no question was asked with your tag.

Note : Whenever I used "user" word I was talking about user excluding mod since mod always have to take a look at everything they want to keep a community need and clean