I know it's possible to add a specific post to the blacklist. When it has tags you don't specifically object to but you still don't like. But is it possible to do the opposite? Exclude a specific post from the blacklist so it shows up even if it has tags that are blacklisted?

As far as I know, you can add -id: to your blacklist (with the id number of the post you want to see.)

For example, if you wanted to blacklist birds, but want to see post #2772206, you could add bird -id:2772206 to your blacklist.

vulkalu said:
As far as I know, you can add -id: to your blacklist (with the id number of the post you want to see.)

For example, if you wanted to blacklist birds, but want to see post #2772206, you could add bird -id:2772206 to your blacklist.

So you would have to mnualy add the exception to every blacklisted tag?

Because my original thought was to add the -id: of the post to the blacklist. But that just blacklisted everything except for that post. Which still was blacklisted itself. So I had done the impossible for a short while and blacklisted all of e621 like God intended

soulsguardian said:
So you would have to mnualy add the exception to every blacklisted tag?

Because my original thought was to add the -id: of the post to the blacklist. But that just blacklisted everything except for that post. Which still was blacklisted itself. So I had done the impossible for a short while and blacklisted all of e621 like God intended

To every blacklisted tag line that appears on that specific post, I believe so. If there's a better way of going about it, then I don't know it. I'm mostly just going off of this page, and forum posts I've seen in the past, since I don't frequently mess with my blacklist.

For example, using that post I linked above, if you were to blacklist bird and realistic on two separate lines, you could do the following:
bird -id:2772206 realistic -id:2772206
Which will cause that specific post to show up, but no other posts with those two tags. Whereas the following:
bird realistic -id:2772206
Would still cause that specific post to be blacklisted, since the exception isn't added on bird.

Apologies if that doesn't help at all. The only other thing I can suggest is if you happen to find a picture that has a tag you'd normally have blacklisted, you could add that post to a set, and then just temporarily toggle off your blacklist when viewing that set. Just remember to toggle it back on after.

If it's some specific artist, you could blacklist the tag and exclude the artists, but if it's specific posts regardless of artists, there's not as much choice. If sets could be used on the blacklist it would make things a lot easier, but they cannot.