It is silly. Clicking on one of your "lj meta" tags loads this URL:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/serenejournal/tag/lj+meta, which, as you've observed, doesn't work.
However, all is not lost! The "equivalent" URL http://www.livejournal.com/users/serenejournal/tag/lj%20meta (http://www.livejournal.com/users/serenejournal/tag/lj%20meta) does work—try it and see! %20 is "URL encoding" for a space character. Plus is supposed to be shorthand for a space, too, I don't know why it doesn't Just Work.
Without knowing anything else about LiveJournal's tag system, based on that quick experiment I'd be reasonably confident that it's a bug which will be fixed at some point. So, don't go changing your tags, is my advice.
FWIW, one thing that is annoying to do is merging two tags — e.g., when I noticed that I'd tagged some cooking-related posts with "food" and others with "kitchen", I couldn't rename one to the other; I had to go through and retag each one. (Fortunately, there were only 3 or so using the wrong one.)
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Date: 2005-08-09 06:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-09 07:22 pm (UTC)Once you fix that glitch, it's smooth-sailing, I promise! (:
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Date: 2005-08-09 07:39 pm (UTC)It is silly. Clicking on one of your "lj meta" tags loads this URL:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/serenejournal/tag/lj+meta, which, as you've observed, doesn't work.However, all is not lost! The "equivalent" URL
http://www.livejournal.com/users/serenejournal/tag/lj%20meta(http://www.livejournal.com/users/serenejournal/tag/lj%20meta) does work—try it and see!%20is "URL encoding" for a space character. Plus is supposed to be shorthand for a space, too, I don't know why it doesn't Just Work.Without knowing anything else about LiveJournal's tag system, based on that quick experiment I'd be reasonably confident that it's a bug which will be fixed at some point. So, don't go changing your tags, is my advice.
Re: please tell me...
Date: 2005-08-09 08:30 pm (UTC)they did work correctly originally, and are meant to work correctly.
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Date: 2005-08-09 09:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-09 09:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-09 09:24 pm (UTC)