I just noticed the results for status:pending don't show page navigation at the bottom. I got 75 results (including blacklisted) until I changed my posts-per-page setting to 99, and then I got exactly 99 results. Adding a term does show pagination as long as there are still enough results; e.g. status:pending rating:e shows the normal navigation for two pages for me (right now). Other status:* metatags have the usual page navigation.

I didn't post this as a bug report because I'm not sure if it's expected/normal or possibly a quirk of my browser or something. I did search the forum & wiki and didn't see anything about this.

Yup, there were 258 posts when I checked, but no pagination.

If this isn't a bug then it's a missing feature.

This appears to be an issue with the status: metatag down somewhere deep in the code and how it estimates the number of total posts.

After investigation, it might be a caching issue as well. Post counts are cached for an hour or so.

This turns out to be a case of tag poisoning. Discussing the best way to fix this one, but it should be fixed for now.