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  • The problem with "hide ignored tags" is that you have to add all the ignored tags, possibly hundreds. That is a very bad UX. Commented Aug 21, 2012 at 21:58
  • @skinnyTOD I'm not sure I understand, how else would you tell the system to ignore a tag other than by adding it? If you want to only see a particular tag, there's a way to do that (just click on the tag). I'm not sure what kind of system you'd prefer. Commented Aug 21, 2012 at 22:00
  • I would prefer to see just the questions for tags I have selected as favorites and topics of interest. If the UI defaulted to showing just favorite tag content then we wouldn't be forced to do "defensive ignoring". As it stands I consider the current implementation broken/bad UX. Commented Aug 21, 2012 at 22:06
  • @skinnyTOD But you are seeing favorited tags. The problem is that even those questions with at least one of your favorited tags are often ones you can't solve if you add a tag like 'java' or 'C#' because there are just so many questions within it. He could click on 'java' and then 'kerberos' to get just those items with both tags if that's what he was looking for. Commented Aug 22, 2012 at 13:34
  • @Servy - any question related to the tags/topics I am interested in is fine - opportunity to learn. Being bombarded by questions related to Android* or Google* (and the hundreds of other tags I have no interest in) is annoying. Commented Aug 22, 2012 at 18:32
  • @skinnyTOD The whole point is that the user has favorited 'java' and those questions are also tagged with 'java'. Either ignore the tags those questions have that you don't want, or look for questions with both 'java' and some other more specific tag (you can perform such a search). The point isn't that he's seeing every single unrelated question ever. Commented Aug 22, 2012 at 18:38
  • @Servy - you don't get it. The user should only see what they have selected as "favorites" and not have to tediously select hundreds of tags to be "ignored." The issue of broad topic tags or sub topics withing broad tags is a different and relatively minor issue. Commented Aug 22, 2012 at 18:52
  • @skinnyTOD The problem though is that even after filtering down to just questions with one of his favorited tags still shows lots of questions he can't answer. Those questions that he can't answer are tagged with a broad tag that he has favorited. Commented Aug 22, 2012 at 18:59