There is an artist named "-rainbowgasm-", and for one of his/her works, I put the name without the dashes. Is there a more proper way to deal with dashes at the ends?

Thanks,
Buscami

hmmm, based on the way our search engine works, we will probably have to remove the dash from the front, and we might make it a rule in the future to do that so it doesn't negate the artist when tagging and searching

IS their no way of just making it "--rainbowgasm-" if you didn't want to see it? Or would that mess up the system?

Moon_Moon said:
IS their no way of just making it "--rainbowgasm-" if you didn't want to see it? Or would that mess up the system?

Well, if you'd like to use a tag that starts with any number of dashes, you can. But it would be completely impossible to search for it, making it basically pointless.

EsalRider said:
Well, if you'd like to use a tag that starts with any number of dashes, you can. But it would be completely impossible to search for it, making it basically pointless.

Thus I think we should strip that part of the artists name

Rainbow_Dash said:
Thus I think we should strip that part of the artists name

(artist)_-rainbowgasm- perhaps?

123easy said:
(artist)_-rainbowgasm- perhaps?

That would physically work yes but probably would not be searched for and I'm not sure about aliasing it with the hyphen in front

Rainbow_Dash said:
That would physically work yes but probably would not be searched for and I'm not sure about aliasing it with the hyphen in front

(-rainbowgasm-)_(artist) then perhaps? Or alias it and rainbowgasm to -rainbowgasm- or vice-versa (alias to the _(artist) tag)?

123easy said:
(-rainbowgasm-)_(artist) then perhaps? Or alias it and rainbowgasm to -rainbowgasm- or vice-versa (alias to the _(artist) tag)?

I might alias it the other way so that it puts -rainbowgasm- in the search bar, without negating the search, but I think just removing the hyphen would be easiest and if not then your alias suggestion would be the best

Why not tag it with undescores instead of hyphens? Or nothing at all... I think if we don't put any symbol at the beginning/end of the tag would do any damage, just putting "rainbowgasm"

Xch3l said:
Why not tag it with undescores instead of hyphens? Or nothing at all... I think if we don't put any symbol at the beginning/end of the tag would do any damage, just putting "rainbowgasm"

I like this idea but the question is will the artist like it?

TheHuskyK9 said:
I like this idea but the question is will the artist like it?

Well, it's a limitation in the system they'll have to deal with, not much can be done right now...

Or use "<name>" but I doubt these symbols are sea... they're searchable! <3 exists as a tag, so we could use those

TheHuskyK9 said:
I like this idea but the question is will the artist like it?

That was the concern I was trying to address by reformatting the tag so it would be appropriate to the actual name chosen without conflict with the tag system.

123easy said:
That was the concern I was trying to address by reformatting the tag so it would be appropriate to the actual name chosen without conflict with the tag system.

I'll see if I can make it an alias it so that the final result has the hyphen in front and still have it search correctly

Xch3l said:
Well, it's a limitation in the system they'll have to deal with, not much can be done right now...

Or use "<name>" but I doubt these symbols are sea... they're searchable! <3 exists as a tag, so we could use those

I remember a while ago, when I was (Jayfeather) (this was some sorta communication error when I requested a username change) and the parenthesis wouldn't allow me to join the in site irc applet.