Bug overview description.
I know the post counts of tags are buggy all over the site, but this is the first time I see one with negative count.
What part(s) of the site page(s) are affected?
https://e621.net/post/show/1417990/151-blue-eyes-feline-invalid_background-invalid_co
What is the expected behavior?
A tag with one post (blue-eyes) should show 1 beside its name, of course.
What actual behavior is given instead?
Instead it shows -4.
Time of incident (if applicable).
n/a
Can you reproduce the bug every time?
Yes, just visiting the page.
What steps did you take to replicate this bug?
Ditto.
Errors or other messages returned (if any).
n/a

This happens when the tag is removed en masse. Usually because it is an invalid tag or is better represented by another tag, and invalid_tag often shows single digit or negative digit amounts because of how often it is removed.

Now, is the artist's name "blue-eyes"? If so, it needs to be changed to "blue-eyes_(artist)" or something like that, because blue-eyes is a common misspelling of blue_eyes, and is likely to be removed any time it is tagged for the latter. Ergo, a negative tag count even when it has tags in it.

Hm, I tagged something blue-eyes on accident the other day and didn't notice this. Not saying it wasn't there, just that I didn't notice :)

That said, I'd agree that blue-eyes_(artist) would be the better name for that artist. :) That said, the artist, by the source, would be the unfortunatly named sansichuu, so THAT should be turned into an artist tag.

On a side note, that post's tags are a hot mess. :) I'd fix it all, but I'll leave it for the time being in case the -4 thing IS something that needs looking at.

Yeah, definitely add the _(artist) tag. Tags like blue-eyes are bound to get deleted as a mistag, especially if any characters in the post happen to have blue eyes.

Anyways, negative tags happen if tags get removed from deleted posts. Among other things. It already corrects itself over time, nothing to worry about.

Genjar said:
Yeah, definitely add the _(artist) tag. Tags like blue-eyes are bound to get deleted as a mistag, especially if any characters in the post happen to have blue eyes.

Anyways, negative tags happen if tags get removed from deleted posts. Among other things. It already corrects itself over time, nothing to worry about.

The artist wasn't blue-eyes, it was definitely a mistag from the character having blue eyes. The artist had been tagged, but not designated as an artist tag. I've fixed both.