<p>Favorite tags are a set of tags selected by a user on a Stack Exchange site. All questions marked as favorite are highlighted in the questions page.</p>

<p>The preferences tab in the User Profile and on the right-hand side of every questions list page shows all Favorite Tags, and has an entry field to set them. They can also be set by hovering over the tag, and clicking on the icon (normal state: silver star) in the upper left of the hover-box to change it to a gold star. You can click on this again, once to change it to a red 'x' which makes it an ignored tag, and twice to go back to the normal silver star, and remove any special status from it.</p>

<p><strong>Tag usage</strong></p>

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<li>Do <strong>not</strong> use this tag for favorite questions, but <a href="/questions/tagged/favorites" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'favorites'" rel="tag">favorites</a>.  </li>
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<p><sub>Reference: adapted excerpt and wiki from the <a href="http://meta.stackexchange.com/tags/favorite-tags/info">Meta Stack Exchange</a> site.</sub></p>
