diff --git a/docs/docsite/rst/playbook_guide/playbooks_tags.rst b/docs/docsite/rst/playbook_guide/playbooks_tags.rst
index c4611d1c697..3196aefafcf 100644
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/playbook_guide/playbooks_tags.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/playbook_guide/playbooks_tags.rst
@@ -319,8 +319,7 @@ Special tags
 ============
 
 Ansible reserves several tag names for special behavior: ``always``, ``never``, ``tagged``, ``untagged`` and ``all``.
-Both ``always`` and ``never`` are mostly for use in tagging the tasks themselves, the other three are used when selecting which tags to run or skip.
-
+Both ``always`` and ``never`` are  for use in tagging the tasks themselves, the other three should only be used as selection tags when choosing what to run or skip and not on the tasks themselves as that will lead to counterintuitive results.
 
 Always and Never
 ----------------