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I just performed a search on this profile and got this result

Just thinking that these searches should be expressed as a phrase due to member names including the search operators in their names.
Search as phrase

  • 12.13.2007 1:26 PM PDT

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I am a proud user of correct spelling and grammar.

Posted by: Keith Byrne
I just performed a search on this profile and got this result

Just thinking that these searches should be expressed as a phrase due to member names including the search operators in their names.
Search as phrase


If you add quotation marks to the search under Forums-Author, it will show all posts that [said member] has made.

If you add quotation marks to the search under Forums-All, it will show anything that is relevant to your search criteria.

[Edited on 12.13.2007 1:37 PM PST]

  • 12.13.2007 1:37 PM PDT

I was speaking in reference to the "More post by the user" feature, members with search operators in their names currently have those operators applied to the next word in their name as far as I can tell.
So you don't get the posts made by that member.

  • 12.13.2007 1:41 PM PDT

>> Eternal War
Help save humanity! Join the epic war against the invading Vallcry!

I am a proud user of correct spelling and grammar.

If you click the "More Posts by This User" link on my profile, it shows everything I've previously posted, not any random crap. Are you saying that it doesn't do that for you?

  • 12.13.2007 1:46 PM PDT
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Posted by: Keith Byrne
I was speaking in reference to the "More post by the user" feature, members with search operators in their names currently have those operators applied to the next word in their name as far as I can tell.
So you don't get the posts made by that member.
Right, I suppose that a nice upgrade would be for the system to automatically do quotation marks, but in the absence of that feature, just add the quotation marks yourself when you hit the "more posts by this user" button.

[Edited on 12.13.2007 1:50 PM PST]

  • 12.13.2007 1:49 PM PDT
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Who see the world’s great anguish and its wrong / And dare not speak.

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He's saying that there is a slight error in the creation of the "more posts by this user" link. For the vast majority of member searches it causes no problems. However, for some member names issues occur. One of them, which he pointed out, is that if a member has a search operator in their name (such as "not"), it alters the way the search engine sees the name, so the results do not come back as expected.

There are other, more minor problems as well. Some users have similar names, so the sarch will return results for two members.

If they added quotes around the given search input, it should fix most of the problems. I'm not sure how easy it would be to do, with however they have it set up.

  • 12.13.2007 2:01 PM PDT

It also erases common terms from Member names during that search.

I did, but I just saw it as a really simple HTML edit, (I ain't qualified to comment though) but I am not sure what repurcussions it would have on the rest of the search system?
But as far as I can see the "More posts by this user" link is auto generated. Would it be difficult to include the &quote; / %22 before and after the search terms?

Edit: Spell check

[Edited on 12.13.2007 2:13 PM PST]

  • 12.13.2007 2:05 PM PDT
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Posted by: Keith Byrne
I just performed a search on this profile and got this result

Just thinking that these searches should be expressed as a phrase due to member names including the search operators in their names.
Search as phrase
When you search for a member, make sure to indicate that what you are searching for is an actual user's display name. For instance, in this case you would type in 'Not Now John' and then you would see all of his posts. Just use the symbol ( ' ) before and after the user name and you most likely receive search results, unless the name you input is invalid, inappropriate, or no longer exists.

[Edited on 12.13.2007 3:22 PM PST]

  • 12.13.2007 3:20 PM PDT

Sorry I should clarify, I got this result when I used either the "More Posts by This User" in the forums, or when I used "All Forum Posts by This User" feature in the users profile.

I am aware of how to fix this myself, but as an integrated feature of the website itself I am concluding that there is a small niche of users that the current method of search does not cover.

  • 12.13.2007 3:29 PM PDT
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If you noticed on the "result" page, the search criteria was just his name, which has spaces in it. The system searches for each one of the words in his name individually, much like google, but there is a simple solution to this. Just put quotation marks (") ouside his name like "Not Now John", and you will see that many results come up.

  • 12.13.2007 6:56 PM PDT
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I'm pretty sure that this guy KNOWS about the little "trick".

What he is suggesting is a solution in the coding for the button, which, in my mind is a very simple solution. Then we wouldn't have half a dozen posts saying, "All you have to do is..."

Great idea. I wonder who can get it changed.

Edit: Spell-check.

[Edited on 12.14.2007 1:25 AM PST]

  • 12.14.2007 1:24 AM PDT