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[administrator]

Why doesn't searching for all posts from a user who hasn't been active for a while work?

eg. Go to View Profile: wendigo100 - Contractor UK Bulletin Board

Then click "Find all posts"

You get one post from 2006

It isn't just posts from a non-active poster, it is just older posts I reckon. I have tried to re-index all content a couple of times with no luck. Got some updates and the fiddling with the rep system to do over the next couple of weeks so will also have a look at this again as well. The trouble with reindexing the search system is it cans the lot first so if it goes wrong then it can cause an even bigger problem.

[Scrag Meister]

Let's unpack that shall we?

a) Misplaced faith in the site search facility
b) General incompetence
c) Thick
d) IT illiterate

Pick all of the above. This question is worth 5 marks.

FTFY

Surely the answer is all not one.

[DirtyDog]

b) General incompetence
c) Thick
d) IT illiterate

Pick on of the above only. This question is worth 5 marks.

[DirtyDog]

Question is why does anyone GAS about the posts from someone that hasn't posted for 4 years?

Sometimes, things that people have said in the past are relevant today.

For example, if you want to read the discussions that people had about whether it was worth leasing a car or not, then doing a search for "ratty hatchback" gives you some interesting results.

Occasionally, I can't remember everything that people said, and I wonder whether people just disappeared (as wendigo100 did, I think) or whether they flounced and stayed away (as TLG did). Searching using Google doesn't give you that information easily unless you specify a date range.

Searching for posts by a user on a forum is different from searching for keywords, which generally sucks on vBulletin. At what point does the search function here cease to work - if it doesn't work reliably, then what is the point of having a search function in the first place?

HTH BIDI

[suityou01]

I am picking on them and f all is happening

Whoops, must be the dodgy keylogger software you infected me with, it's knobbled my 'e'.

[northernladuk]

Let's unpack that shall we?

a) Misplaced faith in the site search facility
b) General incompetence
c) Thick
d) IT illiterate

Pick on of the above only. This question is worth 5 marks.

I am picking on them and f all is happening

[northernladuk]

My keylogger tells me admin was typing you a reply but has quit the window. He's currently posting some replies on his mumsnet sockie so I wouldn't hold your breath for a response today.

[suityou01]

And if they did GAS why wouldn't you use google to find the posts.....

Let's unpack that shall we?

a) Misplaced faith in the site search facility
b) General incompetence
c) Thick
d) IT illiterate

Pick on of the above only. This question is worth 5 marks.

[eek]

Question is why does anyone GAS about the posts from someone that hasn't posted for 4 years?

And if they did GAS why wouldn't you use google to find the posts.....

[northernladuk]

Question is why does anyone GAS about the posts from someone that hasn't posted for 4 years?

[suityou01]

Why doesn't searching for all posts from a user who hasn't been active for a while work?

eg. Go to View Profile: wendigo100 - Contractor UK Bulletin Board

Then click "Find all posts"

You get one post from 2006

See here

HTH Everyone else.

[DirtyDog]

Why doesn't searching for all posts from a user who hasn't been active for a while work?

eg. Go to View Profile: wendigo100 - Contractor UK Bulletin Board

Then click "Find all posts"

You get one post from 2006