# Exclude\_tag does not work in category RSS feeds

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-tag-does-not-work-in-category-rss-feeds/400034
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** rss-polling
**Created:** [April 6, 2026, 4:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-tag-does-not-work-in-category-rss-feeds/400034 "2026-04-06T16:17:12Z")
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### Author: ![f-a](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@f-a](https://meta.discourse.org/u/f-a)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2026, 4:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-tag-does-not-work-in-category-rss-feeds/400034/1 "2026-04-06T16:17:13Z")

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`exclude_tag` does not work in _category_ RSS feeds (and specifically for those).

**To reproduce:**

```plaintext
wget -O a.xml “https://meta.discourse.org/c/support/6.rss”
wget -O b.xml “https://meta.discourse.org/c/support/6.rss?exclude_tag=ai”
diff a.xml b.xml

```

You will see the two files are the same.

**Expected:**

`ai` tagged are excluded from the RSS feed.

**Additional information:**

_Main_ RSS feed do work, that is:

```plaintext
wget -O a-all.xml “https://meta.discourse.org/latest.rss”
wget -O b-all.xml “https://meta.discourse.org/latest.rss?exclude_tag=ai”
diff a-all.xml b-all.xml

```

shows the two files are different.

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