@Toks: The wildcard does not actually work as you'd...

Toks
2014-03-17T15:51:30-04:00

The wildcard does not actually work as you'd intuitively expect - it limits the number of tags checked to your tag query limit (presumably for performance reasons). This applies to both the pool: wildcard and regular tag wildcards.

For example, if you do a post search for s*, you would expect that any post with any tag beginning with the letter S be returned. In reality, it just picks the biggest tags starting with S and searches for posts with any of those tags. If you're a basic member it will only pick the 2 largest tags. If you're gold it picks the 6 largest. If you're platinum+ it picks the 12 largest. Since there are a total of 24109 tags beginning with S, even 12 isn't even close to being all of them.

In the case of user:qazmlpok pool:* it picks the 6 largest pools on the site (these 6) and then filters those posts down by which you have uploaded.

tl;dr You need to make your wildcard searches more specific. Very broad wildcard searches will not work right.