Apparently rating:e rating:q actually renders search results for me, and they're all rating:q search results. How can a post have both an e AND a q rating? Isn't that some kind of logic-breaker? (I didn't pay attention in Probability and Statistics back in High School, if you can't tell).

EDIT: And I forgot to mention that rating:e and rating:q are not in my blacklist.

Think rating:-s would work.

furballs_dc said:
Think rating:-s would work.

I was just testing out tags, I wasn't looking for anything specific to blacklist or search for.

But I still find that really interesting how it does that.

The search system only supports one of each metatag at a time, so you cannot combine them the way you might expect. It's a limitation that's fairly deeply ingrained in the system. It's only searching for rating:q and not rating:e even though both are in the input.

Works the same way with any metatag, not just rating.

furballs_dc said:
Think rating:-s would work.

-rating:s

parasprite said:
-rating:s

Ah, ok. :3

KiraNoot said:
The search system only supports one of each metatag at a time, so you cannot combine them the way you might expect. It's a limitation that's fairly deeply ingrained in the system. It's only searching for rating:q and not rating:e even though both are in the input.

Works the same way with any metatag, not just rating.

Huh, that's pretty cool, but how does it choose which one to actually search for? Is it order of tags in the searchbox?

Linicks said:
Huh, that's pretty cool, but how does it choose which one to actually search for? Is it order of tags in the searchbox?

Looks like it. My guess is that searches are read from left to right, and for multiple metatags the later ones overwrite the previous, meaning that the rightmost one is the one searched for.

If you need to search for multiple, say, statuses, the tilde works as an or, giving you the union. But as far as I know there's no way to look for the intersection without special tools.