Any ways to make this a thing? We have so many great meta tags to use, but we can't use them for the popular posts section...would be great to be able to exclude things we aren't looking for and search with the rating:safe/questionable/explicit tags and stuff.

you can search by fav count and upvote count and still include regular search words

Mutisija said:
you can search by fav count and upvote count and still include regular search words

bella is talking about this page, which doesn't currently let you search.

order:score date:today / order:score date:day (Today's date versus last 24 hours)
order:score date:week
order:score date:month

Might work on the normal post page. I'm not sure offhand how the popular page is sorted, but order:favorites might be worth trying as well.