Hey how come i got jumped on Gazza, you have been known to skip the odd topic and toss the odd curved ball in to you know



TL

there is no problem going off topic Davo ... nobody seems to mind to much.

I sometimes find the comment you're after might not be in a thread with a topical subject as well. With the lively conversation that goes on here, it's very easy to get off topic, even when you're doing your level best to avoid it. I doubt it really bothers anyone. There'd be far more moderation or comment about it otherwise. I think everyone does what they can, and there's a good understanding this is the case.

Sometimes I like to refer back to a post for some info I want, or to link it for another member, and looking through the topic threads can become a nightmare, especially if you can't remember the title of the thread, or how long ago someone replied to it. "As we have nearly 20,000 posts on the Forum now it's a big haystack to find a little needle."

I just tried +search +forum and it seemed to work, but without knowing how many places those terms have been used together, I've got no idea how accurate the results were.

If you navigate directly to the search form it's faster to do a specific search across all forums. If you want to really dig deep, try the advanced search instead.

If you navigate directly to the search form it's faster to do a specific search across all forums. If you want to really dig deep, try the advanced search instead.

"Some friends" in this case is the one and only TLCAUS!! He has been the bestower of the Astral rewards

when I tried the multi-word searches they just didn't work. It was a while ago, and maybe an upgrade has improved the situation (it was promised) so I'll give it a go again.

After a lot of tinkering around in the wee hours, I figured out how you guys got your stars. Though I'm climbing through the rankings like a geek possessed, stars are purely street cred, or just getting some friends to give you stardom

One really major blow is the minimum word size is too small. I know this has been commented elsewhere, so some of the wind isn't in the search bars sails. I don't personally feel it's been implemented that well either.

You should be able to search for +mac +mini which would find all topics talking specifically about the mac mini. You should be able to search for +mac -mini to find all posts about mac but not mini. IE specifically exclude mac mini's from the search.

Because of the word length limit you can't. It's really not hard to make the search test for single word lengths below 4 charaacters. IE test the whole string length is greater than 4.

One way around this is to search for "mac mini" in quotes. If both words are longer than 3 characters, you can use the +word -word.

If you search for word1 word2, you'll get postings containing word1 or word2.

Try some out and see how you go. Just run the same search inside the topic you find to locate postings with the search term. This is where I think the system could work better, by doing that automatically, or highlighting all your search terms in the topic.