savageorange said:
A cleverly designed poll might be able to find out some things about how usable these features are in practice.[...]

I mean, parenthetical searching has plenty of uses, particularly when you have more than one set. it also handles wildcarded terms and metatags in ways that are not possible with normal searches.

I was just saying excluding multiple tags was a function that already existed prior.

dba_afish said:
I mean, parenthetical searching has plenty of uses, particularly when you have more than one set. it also handles wildcarded terms and metatags in ways that are not possible with normal searches.

I wasn't arguing otherwise -- there's just a question about who should be using them and who maybe should be encouraged to master the more basic things first, as with eg. regular expressions.