Search function - horrible

Then stop whining, shut up, and use google.

Lane has explained it 3 times in this thread how to do a proper search, and I have done it many, many times with great success.

laf773 = Lane. Read his signature, it's not that hard. Who else has explained how to use the search function 3 times in this thread? Did you actually read his posts or just the first one and decided to add your complaining in with it?

If someone explains something 3 times and you still complain about how it doesn't work, then yes, you are whining. It does work. No, it's not handed to you on a silver platter, deal with it.

Don't *sigh* at me. It's just a little too stupid on a forum.


*sticks tounge out*

See?

After playing around with it, Laf7773 is right. Blank out the dates and use the blank space above the days/weeks, etc.

Works pretty good when you do that, although IMHO, THAT should be the default, as it is very confusing the way it is currently set.

Thanks for the explanation, Laf.

Oldman: is there some way to deal with the time/flood control on searching? Say I want to do a search on 'Suparinpei'...it comes up with threads I already have...so I change the spelling...or start another search. I have to wait.

Is there some way to change this?

thanks

What the hell are you talking about? What in my post was l33t? I hate that crap as much as you. All you have to do is read his post, it says Lane at the end of it.

I guess you're just a little too dense to figure that out.

See, right beloew this, it says Joel, that's called a signature. Like in yours where you're complaining about your flood control...

So that clears up the date question - but it doesn't clear up the only one search every five minutes question.

I'd love to browse the archives on several topcs but if I make one little typo I've got to leave and come back later. That's just a joy-killer.

Is this something that can be modified or no?

Hmmmm, I don't have flood control on my searches...maybe because I'm a mod? I thought there was before, but I thought it was fixed.

If not I agree that there shouldn't be a flood on searches, hopefully we can get that fixed/loosened.

<< For the majority of the new people though they don't need it, just do a blanket search of the entire forum for their topic. >>
And this is done HOW?

Leave both windows blank to just search for keywords/username with no date limit. If you click on the drop down button on the "newer than" window where it say days, weeks, months and years you will see a blank space above days. Click on that and clear the "1" out of the other window and the system will search as far back as needed to get 200 results.

Actually if you read the rest of the thread, you'll find out that it is quite simple to do a search in the forums.

UpDate!!!!

Ok I think I see where the problem is. at the bottom of the forum listing there is a "Search forum" box. At the Main page there is also search function listed at the top of the page. Neither of these appear to be actually tied to one another. I just ran a search using the one at the top of the main page and it did what I told it to do. However trying the same with the one at the bottom of each forum page seems to still be a little quirky. Who knows why they seem to have split the search functions like that. And I tried that second one again and it still only allow you one search every-so-often. I dont know what that is all about!

So maybeeeeee the real problem is that people are using the second search function and none of you all know they aren't the same?

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I'm going to have to agree. I just ran a search, and got this on the second time I went to use it (mind you this was with me and one other user setting on the server, so its not like the server was busy) :

"You cannot make another search at this time. Please try again in a few minutes."

Then I ran a search using my nickname here, and it showed me two (2) post. One by you Matt and one that Cord had written. Not a single one post that I have written was included. So the search module doesn't take usernames into account if you decided to look for a post by a speciafic person I have to assume behind what was just diaplayed

In relation to the timeout issue for searching,

If you click on a users name in a thread, which brings up their profile, and you click on the "show all users posts" it quite nicely brings up that list. Click any item to view a post, then click the back button to go back to the list to check out the next item and voila timeout, come back later. Grumble. I would very much appreciate it if the timeout was removed from this feature. Thanks.

Laura

Until this is remedied, there is a way around it. When you have a list of posts up, (if using internet explorer) right-click on a post and select "Open in a new window" or hold down the SHIFT key and click on it. This will open it in another window and leave the search as is.