How do you search in VNDB?!

[Clementt]

Pretty sure most if not all of you know what is VNDB right? And if you been there you'd notice the search bar. On paper the search bar sounds great, you can include and exclude tags and there a lot of them with different section for you to choose and then click "Search".

The problem comes from, how does it actually works?

The search system have

"AND" which refers to multiple tags must be included

"OR" which refers to one of the tag must be included but not all.

And

"AND" which refers to multiple tags must be excluded

"OR" which refers to one of the tag must be excluded but not all

But the thing is that when I tried to search VN, with Exclude and Include...With all "AND". It would sometimes shows VN that have tag that I exclude and doesn't show VN that I know have a tag that I includes.

How does the search bar actually work? One thing that I always wish for in VN search is the option to exclude tags/genres when searching, I was happy when I see VNDB allows that but the search function is so confusing.

Can someone help? Plz?

 

[blackflag]

AND means "search this and other terms."

AND Means dont search selected terms. So if you want to exclude like.. "Bicycles."

 

[trucker426]

AND returns results only if all specified tags are present in the visual novel, OR does it as long as one or more of the tags is present.
AND only excludes visual novels if all of the listed tags are present in it (in combination). OR excludes visual novels if even one of the listed tags is present. So most of the time you'll want to use OR, not AND.

 

[Clementt]

No I know that, problem is a lot of times when I use ~AND and theres still some VN with it included in the search.

Usually character role. Even though I already use character>tags>role>AND

 

[fr4pp3cinn]

You should use OR in this case. Think of it like this:
OR: exclude anything that has Tag 1 OR Tag 2. If a character only has one of those tags they'll still be excluded
AND: exclude anything that has Tag 1 AND Tag 2. This way you won't exclude anything that has Tag 1 but not Tag 2. Only when they're together.