In the Account Settings next to the blacklist tags box it says "Separate tags with spaces."

However, you need to put each tag on a separate line.

I tried separating tags with spaces as instructed and only discovered I was doing it wrong when I searched the forums and found a post from an admin saying that rather than being separated by spaces the tags need to be one per line.

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I also suggest adding links to these two pages to that little blurb on the settings page.

http://e621.net/wiki/show?nordirect=1&title=blacklist

http://e621.net/wiki/show?nordirect=1&title=blacklisting_suggestions

bluebackground said:
In the Account Settings next to the blacklist tags box it says "Separate tags with spaces."

However, you need to put each tag on a separate line.

I tried separating tags with spaces as instructed and only discovered I was doing it wrong when I searched the forums and found a post from an admin saying that rather than being separated by spaces the tags need to be one per line.

Half right, really. You can put multiple tags per line, and it'll only blacklist things that match all tags on one line. And those tags still have to be separated by spaces. I do think that it should mention the new line thing, I'll add that in soon.

tony311 said:
Half right, really. You can put multiple tags per line, and it'll only blacklist things that match all tags on one line. And those tags still have to be separated by spaces. I do think that it should mention the new line thing, I'll add that in soon.

Well it does say essentially that, but people seem to interpret it incorrectly pretty often.

e621.net said:
Any post containing all blacklisted tags on a line will be hidden. Separate tags with spaces.

I think what's really needed in addition to the instructions are some examples, so people understand that the blacklisting feature is far more sophisticated than only being able to block single tags.

I think it would be a very good idea to have a link to the tag-search cheat sheet in the blacklist instructions though: http://e621.net/help/cheatsheet

Actually we should have a link to that cheat sheet underneath the search box too, in my opinion. I imagine it'd get used far more if people saw a link to it from there.

Char said:
I think what's really needed in addition to the instructions are some examples, so people understand that the blacklisting feature is far more sophisticated than only being able to block single tags.

Well, not meaning to toot my own horn (as I think I mostly rewrote the page..) .. but blacklist does a pretty good job of, I think, explaining the ins and outs of blacklisting... every one I've pointed to it has understood after the fact.

also, /agree about the cheatsheet.