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This sort of thing sounds like it needs to be in the code (Anton will know better but I guess he's a bit busy with the AMS/MAA meeting at the moment) so you should see if someone's requested this feature over on meta.SE. If so, vote for it. If not, request it yourself.
I've posted the question on meta.SE: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3710/is-there-a-way-to-ignore-specific-questions
Just as on MO, you can build up reputation by asking sensible questions that others then vote for. "Sensible questions" can be bug reports or feature requests, amongst other things. Also, if you don't have enough rep to leave a comment then you can always leave an answer (just say "Since I don't have enough rep to comment, ...") and if it's something worth saying, someone'll probably vote for it. Do that a couple of times and you'll have enough rep to vote for feature requests and the like, which is probably all most of us want to do on meta.SE.
@Sonia,
Harry, that is certainly not a viable option
I agree with Marino, that's way to dirty.
Well I disagree with Pete that Harry should have deleted the post, I think that is a bit much. I however think you Harry have come quite close to doing what you suggested, and I'm not sure what to think about it. In this example you retagged it as "tag-removed" and in the comments you say
I retagged this because I have tag-removed blocked, and this question's going to be closed soon anyway.
I think you may have somewhat crossed a line there since you're retagging (an admittedly bad) question, just to serve your own purpose.
No, I retagged it because it's going to be closed and the tag was wrong in the first place. If anything, it was probability, not combinatorics, and now it's tag-removed. No harm, no foul. The worst I did was switch out an incorrect tag for a now correct tag. I mean, I removed the tag, so it's tag-removed, right?
The mitigating factor here was that the question had -2 votes and was as Gr\'etar said, "admittedly bad".
I think I now have enough information to recreate Harry's deleted suggestion ...
Hmm, interesting idea. It sort of has the ring of the "Journal of Stuff I Like" (some post on "God Plays Dice" a year or so ago). I could decide that if Greg Kuperberg thinks a question isn't worth looking at then I'm not going to look at it either, ditto a few others that use the site. I can see some potential for that idea.
Except that, of course, it wouldn't work because the system isn't designed to be used that way and there are too many changes that would need to be made to ensure the system wasn't abused.
Whence came the suggestion of private or at least local tagging.
Harry's deleted suggestion was to retag the question with something like [anton-ignored] and add that tag to my ignored list. I agree with everybody that it would be unacceptable to actually do that, so let's not do it. The [tag-removed] tag is primarily a handy way for a moderator to remove an unwanted tag (e.g. [newbie]) from the system by merging the undesirable tag into [tag-removed], but you can also use it when you want to remove an inappropriate tag from a question, but there aren't any other tags that fit.
I've voted up Qiaochu's request. Another idea that I was discussing with somebody (Scott?) a while ago is a user preference to ignore any question that you've voted down. I feel like private tags would be feature creep.
@fedja: I'm not sure if this is what you want, but you can check the "hide ignored tags" box in your user preferences page to make it so that questions with ignored tags don't appear at all (rather than just being grayed out).
@CSiegel: It will be grayed out and highlighted. I think if you're set the user pref to hide ignored tags, then it won't appear, but I should be able to change that in css.
Okay, questions with both ignored and interested tags should now be displayed even if you've set the preference to hide questions with ignored tags, but they'll still appear slightly opaque.
Is there any way to change the color for interesting tags? That yellow looks really bad with the rest of the color scheme. Maybe you could change the text color instead of the background color? Say, make interesting questions have blue text rather than a yellow background?
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