suggestion: nuke the tags that begin with a minus sign

I don’t know when this happened, but the presense of a tag beginning with a minus sign in an image breaks the tag editor, resulting in that tag and every tag listed after to not preload in the editor like they should, which could result in a mass-tag-removal simply by hitting Save tags immediately after opening the tag editor.

@Kincyr
The minus sign is a special character. See the search instructions section entitled Escaping Special Characters for more information.

Creating tags that use a special character, especially a minus sign as the first character, is doing to cause a lot of problems for searching, filtering, etc.

What is the tag you’re trying to create?

Oh … you’re trying to get rid of some bogus tags, some that were created by vandals. Hmmm.

I will look at your list to see if I can simply burn them from the database.

Oh, that’s a nasty bug.

It’s possible to circumvent it by (temporarily) switching off the fancy tag editor. Then you can remove the offending tag and save them without losing other tags.

@JP
that’s good to know. I didn’t think to start with the plain editor. at least I know now that this bug is limited to when the fancy tag editor is used.

@Ciaran
it doesn’t seem that any of the tags starting with a minus sign are widely used, or particularily useful.
I just tested the fancy editor with images that contain tags starting with other special characters, only a leading minus sign breaks the editor so there doesn’t seem to be any other worries on that front.