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Re: Apply skip filter settings to searches.
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 7 Jul 2004 22:25:35 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, David Eaton wrote:
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In lugnet.admin.general, Don Heyse wrote:
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Sounds like the solution is to remove .debate from the top level index file,
but leave it in the off-topic subtree index files. How hard could that be?
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I think the issue is that then the only way to search for things in
off-topic.debate would be to search there explicitly, and conversely, that no
posts to off-topic.debate would *ever* show up in a regular search. So (say)
if I were looking for a “recent” post of a particular author to see if they
were still active (or looking for their current email address or something),
I might have to make 2 seperate searches. Likewise if I happen to know that a
particular topic skewed its way into off-topic, and I don’t know whether the
post I’m looking for was before or after it went that way...
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Well, most of the time you get two choices for news search, just not at
the top level. How about giving us two choices at the top level as well?
“News” would be everything we get now, minus .debate. “News (Everything)”
could be what we get now, including the kitchen sink and the sewer.
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My vote would be for adding optional post-processing to the search. At the
time it’s displaying the brief version, check the skip-filter settings and
skip if necessary. This probably doesn’t *quite* work perfectly, since
results may be returned in discrete chunks, and the code won’t know until
afterwards if it got any valid results... but that may be work-around-able,
depending on various whatnots.
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Yeah sure, and throw in custom filters as well. That’d be great, but if
it’s more than trivial, I don’t think it’s gonna happen.
Don
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| (...) The "sewer"? That seems pejorative. You may no longer like debate but why cast aspersions? I could just as easily argue that I want .bionicle filtered out when searching at the top level as .debate with about as much validity. I think any hard (...) (20 years ago, 7-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Apply skip filter settings to searches.
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| (...) I think the issue is that then the only way to search for things in off-topic.debate would be to search there explicitly, and conversely, that no posts to off-topic.debate would *ever* show up in a regular search. So (say) if I were looking (...) (20 years ago, 7-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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