Tag+user searching broken for retro-tagged posts?

February 12, 2008 5:10 PM

Listing posts by a specific user with a specific tag fails for some older posts, probably because they've been retrospectively tagged.

For instance, look at two posts about juggling. This recent one by staggernation comes up in a search for staggernation's posts about juggling. This one by MiguelCardoso doesn't come up in a search for MiguelCardoso's posts about juggling — I'm guessing that it's been retrospectively tagged, and that retrospective tags don't work with the user-searching feature.

posted by Burger-Eating Invasion Monkey to Bugs at 5:10 PM (5 comments total)

I meant the juggle tag, not the juggling tag. Anyhoo.
posted by Burger-Eating Invasion Monkey at 5:17 PM on February 12, 2008

I think the author thing on tags relates to who did the tag instead of the author of the post. So in this case staggernation tagged his post himself, while Miguel's was tagged by someone else. We'll fix it up.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:18 PM on February 12, 2008

by the way, today we added tags to the search page. Here's the result for all posts tagged with juggling.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:19 PM on February 12, 2008

Awesome!
posted by Burger-Eating Invasion Monkey at 5:25 PM on February 12, 2008

I just fixed this up. But the fix was a little too easy so I might be missing something. Let me know if the user tag search seems off at all.
posted by pb (staff) at 4:25 PM on February 18, 2008