Bug overview description.
Including an asterisk as a wildcard in searches is not properly searching for all applicable tags, unless another search term is also included.
What part(s) of the site page(s) are affected?
Searching.
What is the expected behavior?
Including an asterisk in a search term should result in all pictures with any string of characters located instead of that asterisk - for instance, example* should result in all images with a tag beginning with example in front.
What actual behavior is given instead?
A significant number of pictures are omitted from such searches.
Time of incident (if applicable).
N/A
Can you reproduce the bug every time?
Yes.
What steps did you take to replicate this bug?
Compare the number of results for this search:
https://e621.net/post/index/1/felix*
And this search:
https://e621.net/post/index/1/felix*%20-wtgagergeg
Including that extra search term certainly ought not to increase the number of results. Likewise, some meta tags have the same effect, except for ordering tags.
Compare:
https://e621.net/post/index/1/felix*%20order:score
https://e621.net/post/index/1/felix*%20score:%3E-100
Errors or other messages returned (if any).
N/A
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