On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, Adam Borowski wrote:
> While amending the regex, what about banning + as the first character as
> well?  It's a common mistake because of the syntax of control messages.
> I for one write:
> usertags 123456 +port-x32 +ftbfs-x32
> more often than the correct
> usertags 123456 +port-x32 ftbfs-x32
> 
> + being attached to the first tag makes it look like the second one should
> have it as well.
> 
> Thus, it'd be nice if such tags were rejected.

It's actually allowed to do this for tags. I think it's probably past
time to switch usertags from request@ to control@ (even though they
don't actually "change" bugs.)


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