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I enjoy using this site from time to time, but I've got a few very popular tags ignore-listed because I usually don't want to read or answer questions about them. (This isn't a value judgement about the game or anything — it's just pointless to look at the majority of D&D5 questions if you're not playing D&D5 and don't have the books on hand to research answers, due to the highly detail-oriented and game-specific nature of questions like "How does this spell work?" or "How can I play this kind of character effectively?")

But all the ignore list does is make the text kinda greyish in the main page "Top Questions" view, while most of the content I see is still ignore-listed items. (I don't know exactly how it changed or when, but I remember the grey-out effect being more pronounced in the past as well?)

If I try to set up a custom filter such as "not dnd-5e," I get a popup that says:

Tag queries cannot be exclusively negative.

What should I do if I actually want to ignore the tag categories on my ignore list, so I can focus on less popular game questions?

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Click edit on the Ignored tags box and swap your setting to Hide, as opposed to Gray out.

image of ignored tags box in edit mode, with free hand circle pointing at the "Hide question" option

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    \$\begingroup\$ :O :O :O :O AMAZING, thank you \$\endgroup\$
    – Alex P
    Feb 25 at 6:07
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    \$\begingroup\$ Hiding all the D&D tags was quite the experience when I tried it. \$\endgroup\$
    – Laurel
    Feb 26 at 3:02
  • \$\begingroup\$ @Laurel You need to refresh the page after you change that setting, otherwise it hides the filtered questions but doesn't go back further to buffer up more non-D&D questions. \$\endgroup\$
    – Alex P
    Feb 26 at 20:43
  • \$\begingroup\$ @AlexP No, that's not how it works. I tested it again and refreshing does nothing. You get X number of questions and then it removes the ones that you ignore. When I set the page size to 50, there were 5 questions on page 2. \$\endgroup\$
    – Laurel
    Feb 26 at 20:48
  • \$\begingroup\$ If i load the page with "gray out" set and then switch to "hide," I see 7 questions on the front page. When I refresh the page, it now displays about 50 questions. \$\endgroup\$
    – Alex P
    Feb 26 at 21:38
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    \$\begingroup\$ @AlexP I'm talking about /questions. It's the only way to view newest questions, see heavily downvoted questions (less than -3), or use filters. \$\endgroup\$
    – Laurel
    Feb 27 at 13:18
  • \$\begingroup\$ @Laurel Ah, I see! Yeah, it's pretty funny/bleak how I only see 3 questions on a page there. \$\endgroup\$
    – Alex P
    Feb 27 at 14:20

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