This occurs regardless of whether the terms are enclosed in a bracket group.
My current workaround is simply to perform the query without the q= term and filter the results client-side. However, it would be much quicker to simply do this at the API level.
Compare the following queries:
13 unique comments containing 'bamboo', 0 containing 'black'. https://api.pushshift.io/reddit/comment/search?link_id=knnflb&q=bamboo
25 unique comments containing 'black', 0 containing 'bamboo'. https://api.pushshift.io/reddit/comment/search?link_id=knnflb&q=black
25 unique comments containing 'black', 0 containing 'bamboo'. https://api.pushshift.io/reddit/comment/search?link_id=knnflb&q=bamboo|black
25 unique comments containing 'black', 0 containing 'bamboo'. https://api.pushshift.io/reddit/comment/search?link_id=knnflb&q=black|bamboo
This occurs regardless of whether the terms are enclosed in a bracket group.
My current workaround is simply to perform the query without the
q=term and filter the results client-side. However, it would be much quicker to simply do this at the API level.