Danbooru

strange tag

Posted under General

Jak_B said: It has pictures, but they're hidden from non-priviledged users. I am one, so I can't really tell what's in there.

Phane is privileged and I'm a mod so it's not that, because I don't see anything either.

jxh2154 said:
Phane is privileged and I'm a mod so it's not that, because I don't see anything either.

Whoops, my bad, I didn't look at the username (old habit of identyfying users by avatars)

Nevermind, my mistake. The - is subtraction, so -- is trying to search for posts that don't have the tag "-", and it returns everything, and shows the "-" tag on the side. There are some cases where some weird things happen with it, though.

Interesting example: post #98521

Updated

Yeah, it should be deleted. I was just pointing it out as having the tag "--", which if you clicked on it did a negative search of "-". The only way to even find things tagged with multiple minuses is "*-".

Tagging something as -[anything] should probably not be allowed by the system.

There used to be a similar problem searching or posting anything with 'blood+', since '+' is also an operator. That one was fixed though. I'm frankly surprised some of the smiley and emoticon tags don't screw up the system.

I reported the minus bug ages ago (probably on the old RH forum) and Albert did some sort of fix, or possibly just emptied the tags (I don't recall), but there were still some -- ones left for some reason but I never bothered following up on it.

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