Hashtags encourage users to spawn new conversations out of existing ones or incorporate others' conversations into a current one. They contribute to reputation and content quality scores as well as user community standing by increasing views of similarly hashtagged content.
- Hashtags are indexed by search.
- Hashtags in rich text editors are not supported in Internet Explorer 8 and versions backward. They are supported in Internet Explorer 9 and above.
This section includes the Using hashtags article.