I'm not sure if they're actually called "tags", but it's the Bold/Underline/Italics/Strike buttons.
This has so far happened to me twice within two or three days, once in my About Me section, once for a journal comment.
For the About Me section, I wanted a group of text bolded, and some of the bolded group underlined. I did everything properly about three times, but each time, instead of it all being bold and part underlined, it was all underlined and part bold. Just switched around. Eventually, I purposefully switched the u's and b's inside the brackets so that, being the opposite of whatever I told it to do, it would appear as I had originally wanted. Since then, though, it fixed itself, and I had to go back and put in the right letters in the right brackets.
So, for the record, this is what it was, minus the in-bracket spaces, of course:
Typed:
[ b ][ u ]Should be bolded and underlined.[ /u ] Should be just bolded.[ /b ]
End result:
Should be bolded and underlined. Should be just bolded.
For the journal comment, I tried to use italics to quote a line from the journal, and then write my response. Instead, the quote was left normal, the response was italicized.
Typed:
[ i ]Journal quote.[ /i ]
Witty reply.
End result:
Journal quote.
Witty reply.
The only pattern I see is that this seems to happen only if I try and bold/underline/italicize/strike (though I havn't used strike and had this happen yet) one line, and then press enter and start a new line underneath. The About Me section, as I gave in the example, had one line break, but the Journal Comment, I put two line breaks, again, as in the example.