Ignore certain tags when searching/filtering?

[MiGrandjean (Michael Grandjean)]

Hi everyone!

I really enjoy our Discourse installation, so thumbs up to everyone involved

We migrated from an old phpBB that also had a lot of german topics. We tagged those as “german” and encourage everyone to use english as preferred language. English topics don’t have a tag. Now, a lot of new users just don’t understand german (who can blame them? ) and one asked if there’s a possibility to exclude those german-tagged topics in their view. I couldn’t find an obvious solution - the filtering can do all, none or one specific tag. The search offers “with tags:”, but not “without tags:”. Is there a possibility to do this?

Best regards,
Michael

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

You should be able to mute the tag you don’t want to see.

• visit the tag page
• select the notification control at upper right
• select mute

[cpradio]

You can accomplish this today using:
search keywords tags:

You can test it on Meta using the following search keywords:

editor keyboard shortcut conflict
first result ends up being (which has a tag #pr-welcome)

Editor keyboard shortcuts conflict with some international keyboard layouts

Some international language keyboard layouts use modifier keys (such as Shift, Alt, Ctrl, or combination of these) to fit extended set of letters, numbers, and symbols and different variations in the keyboard. One such keyboard layout used in our community has mapped a symbol on AltGr+1 or Ctrl+Alt+1 which conflicts with the Markdown editor’s keyboard shortcut for h1 heading. Would it be better to respect the actual character typed (key) and not just based on the physical key pressed (code), th…

editor keyboard shortcut conflict tags:
Only shows the releases related results (does not show the feature tagged as #pr-welcome)

[JammyDodger]

As an update on this one, you can now exclude tags from a search using the ‘not tag’ operator -tag:TAGNAME

eg: for non-official theme components it would be #theme-component -tag:official