Serious thread here! Don't it!


What do you all think of requiring new threads to start with a category word such as "Engine," "Exhaust," etc. in the thread title? That way you could narrow done the forum's search.

Too many times, folks start threads with "I've got a problem..." Hell, is it a drinking problem?

I don't know important it is to you all, but I use the search often. Perhaps something as simple as this can be done. Even if someone starts a thread not using key words in the title that has good content, perhaps a Mod or CO can put said keyword in front of the existing title.

Just a thought and welcoming yours......... this one time!

 

I use the search function every now and then, and when I do, I try to be a specific as possible. Sometimes what I'm looking for comes up, and other times it's way off. I normally just search through the pages of results until I get what I'm looking for.

Now, to respond to you Skip. The main thing that we would need to know first is how the search function actually works. What specifically is it searching? Just titles? Titles and subtitles? Titles, Subtitles, thread content? You get the point.

Also, depends on HOW it determines what is a good match. Does it start in one topic area search and move to the next? Does it get the results and order them somehow (whether its by how many times the word appears, the thread with the most hits, the date of the thread)?

I haven't paid enough attention to the search to answer some of these questions.

I think that the issue here is the search function does work, but I think we just need to know how to use it. I highly doubt that the company that developed this software would release it with a non-working search function.

Just my $.02

 

good, idea, skip.

 

Yeah, could help, everytime i have used the search funtion

A. I get the complete oposite of what i was looking for
B. The posts i find are 2 years old.

 

the search engine on s2ki sucks in general... there's not much to do about it... just use google advanced search....

 

Actually, you can already search key words in the title only or in all posts. It can already search a specific forum.

 

Yogi is working on a new search engine. We've been testing it out on the S2Ki beta site and it seems to be very

I don't know how long it will be before they put it on S2Ki though.

You can also use Google to search S2Ki

 

Only problem I can see is enforcing the title thing. I guess like you said, mods could edit it in or whatever ...

One potential idea is prevent posts from being posted until the user selects a category of the post from a drop down box. Then prepend the appropriate category onto the subject.

So if the user selected exhaust, it might say:

"[--Exhaust--] What is the lightest exhaust made for the S2000?"

Then you could even work it into the search so when you search you choose the category it fits into and just have it search specifically for [--XX--] ... Or whatever you wanted to put into it.

Allow for maybe an "Other" so if your post has nothing to do with one of the categories then you can just file it under "Other".

No idea how difficult this would be to implement but it sounds fairly straightforward.

 

I'm not doing that crap I mod S2000 Talk

 

Yeah exactly ... too much of a PITB! ... Thats why I thought the category idea and forcing a person to choose a category when they posted it would work. If the person chose the wrong category then a mod could always fix it ... but I'd hope most people would be able to choose the right category if its kept simple.