When I input [asdf][lisp] into the search field on http://stackoverflow.com, without being logged in, only one tag remains. Is it broken?
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We only allow a single tag search for anonymous users at this time.
So yes, we will strip out the remaining tags when searching as anonymous.
answered Nov 21, 2014 at 13:06
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4What the heck??? 1) Why? 2) Why silently removing? I usually surf unlogged in. Commented Nov 21, 2014 at 13:10
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It was a quick response to a DDOS attempt. We are still evaluating how to bring back this functionality. Commented Nov 21, 2014 at 13:14
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1Like I said, we were in a middle of a DDOS, not really a moment to write refined solutions. Commented Nov 21, 2014 at 13:27
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@Smit there is a fair chance this will become permanent, if the team will find out this is a risk to the whole system. I agree it should be better documented though. (e.g. a banner will appear when the system strips tags away) Commented Dec 7, 2014 at 8:43
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So is this a dupe of this one? meta.stackexchange.com/questions/242639/… Commented Apr 3, 2015 at 22:11
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1@Oded has SE evaluated how to bring back this functionality yet? ;)– ᔕᖺᘎᕊCommented Apr 3, 2015 at 22:11
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3@Oded you can't provide search links on other sites then - unloggen in users cannot use it. And still no error message. Commented Apr 11, 2015 at 16:57
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2Note that this also happens when using
foo barinstead of[foo] [bar]which is even more of a problem. I shouldn't run a tag search just because the word I entered happens to be a tag, and I certainly shouldn't have one of my search terms removed with no explanation. Especially when it works as expected on the actual search page. I understand this was to protect from a DDoS attack, but that shouldn't affect search terms that are not explicitly entered as tags but as regular strings.– terdonCommented Sep 25, 2015 at 14:17 -
1This still happens. If you're not going to re-enable it for anonymous users, can you make a note on the search page when additional tags are stripped out? Commented Aug 29, 2016 at 15:17
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@KevinMills it seems to work for anonymous users when you append "is:question" or "is:answer" to your query, so for example following query should return questions tagged with [tags] and [search] and [bug]:
[tags][search][bug] is:question– LeszekCommented Nov 21, 2016 at 12:43 -
"at this time" - over two years later, is this about to change? (if not, better remove this part) Commented Jan 16, 2017 at 11:19
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@Sha - talking with the team to see if we can relax this or not. Commented Jan 16, 2017 at 12:49
[asd][asdf], both were used.[asdf]as a tag?[asdf][lisp]on Stack Overflow search. Still no repro. I see both tags. 20 questions tagged with both.