Tagging crossovers?

[catechism]

Hi, everyone! I am so pleased to have a community in which to flail incomprehensibly about tagging fic. You have no idea. (Okay, some of you do. Whatever.) Also, I know our community about tagging should probably have some tags. I am working on it! (There are some, but they are probably lacking in useful information

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[minervacat]

when I tag crossovers, I tag "fandom1 fandom2 crossovers (pairing or character)". I have a tag specifically for crossovers, but aside from using the occasional prefixed period as an action indicator, I don't use punctuation in my tags so other than the two fandoms and the "crossovers" tag, I don't have any way to note them.

I tag fandoms in order of importance in the crossover, if I can determine it; if it's someone from Homicide: Life On The Street in the Supernatural universe, Supernatural comes first and Homicide second. Otherwise, alphabetical.

I wouldn't bother tagging fandom/fandom if only because you can always use tag intersections. Isn't that essentially the same viewing functionality that you would get from a fandom/fandom tag, or am I missing something?

[catechism]

Man, punctuation in my tags is either the best or worst thing ever. Because del.icio.us ignores it! So I can tag something *&&^*^%%$blah, and running /tag/blah will still find my stuff! AWESOME. But it has made me a little crazy? I am now thinking perhaps my del.icio.us is too arcane. But, man, bundling is so amazingly easy now

[minervacat]

I feel clicking on one of those should show you the damn intersection, not show you the new tag.

If you click the tag, it shows you that tag. But if you click the +, it shows you the intersection. Is this a secret piece of delicious knowledge I should have shared with people earlier? I assumed everybody knew that. :|

I've also been able to make delicious give me tag intersections for more than two tags, as well; for example: http://del.icio.us/minervacat/bandslash%2Bcrossovers%2Bquantummirror

But I don't know how that would work on something that would, presumably, give more results that bandslash+crossovers+quantummirror, which obviously is a VERY SMALL subsection of fic.

[catechism]

!!!!

Interesting. I guess I have never just clicked the + because it's such a small target. (Or maybe I just forgot.) Doing it that way will, in fact, give me an intersection of more than two tags, so. It's weird that it wouldn't do it when I was just typing them in. I wonder if that's an instance of my punctuation fucking things up? Since the character codes show up in the URL bar instead of the actual punctuation. Hrm.

... or, after more testing, maybe I'm just an idiot who can't type. Who knows! I tried the intersection I'd tried before, using the 'related tags' section to drill down to what I wanted, and then I tried it manually, and they both worked. So. User error, I guess.

[minervacat]

Hooray! That's the second useful thing I've been able to do since 8AM!

I did not answer your questions very well, lady, but I hope it was helpful anyway.