The profile page has a section called "Top tags". Several tags are displayed there. (I have only seen six, I am not sure whether it is always the same number.) Question: How are the tags displayed here chosen? Originally I thought that they are the tags where the user has the highest score. Howev...

I found this post on SO asking the same thing, a comment from Martijn Pieters♦ says By percentage, the number of posts with that tag out of the total, together with the score. So they are sorted by the post % value you see in your screen shot. This seems to be a combination of the total number ...

The tags shown are picked from the top 9 tags by non-CW post count (so questions and answers, but not counting posts with CW (Community Wiki) status), then ranked by their score (total up-votes, minus total down-votes, only for the non-CW posts, ties are broken by post counts), and the top 6 tags...

Follow-up to: We’re removing “Hot Meta Posts” from Stack Overflow's sidebar for now; moderators now control the [featured] tag A recent blog post from Stack Exchange admitted that Meta actually does represent engaged users to a much greater extent than they previously believed. That being the cas...