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by RazorX 1507 days ago
My favorite tag is UPSTREAM to annotate workarounds forced by 3rd party libs or otherwise. Normally I include the link to the associated GitHub issue or SO post.

Tends to be the most useful in-code comment because if someone comes along and "helps" to refactor the "weird" code, they could accidentally undo the workaround and get stuck in the same loop the original author was in.