Purged threads

There's a thread that has been purged of mine from the Debian forum. Is there any way to get it back? I have additional info I need to add to it. It's called internet connection failed.

Craigwd, threads are never "purged" from LQ. My post from 2000 introducing the site is still around. Also, we *almost* never remove threads at all.

--jeremy

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...5&pagenumber=1 - here is a list of all of your threads. What makes you think it was purged?

Threads are only deleted if they are hugely offensive in some way - otherwise, they are merely closed.

After a quick search, is this it?

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...light=internet

--jeremy

Yeah, but I searched for it from the Debian forum itself and couldn't find it oddly enough. I used internet as my keyword, but I came up with nothing with me as the creator.

You could have just done a search for your user name - it would have brought up every post of yours.

I know that, stop overstating the obvious. I was trying to be creative by using internet as my keyword. I hope this proves to jeremy that the LQ search function needs to be improved.

Oh god, here we go again. Let me explain: this is an internet site, many many people use the nternet and have problems and so put a post on this site with the word "internet" in it. So searching for that word is not a particularly efficient search now is it? You could also have searched fo the word "linux" - you would have had an equally fruitless time.

The more efficient things you could have done would be to search for words you knew were in your post or search by your user name. Your inability to do a good search in no way means that the search function is broken or otherwise not working correctly.

And, hey, not to state the obvious but your post is not a good way to respond to a legitimate post in a forum such as this. Do not do it again. Remember, posting is a privilege not a right and posting in the way you did is a good way to have the privilege removed.

Craigwd, FWIW when I found the thread I searched for posts by "Craigwd" with the word internet in the title. If you still have the searchid for the search that failed I can try to see why it failed. The search is always something we are trying to improve, but without specific reproducible examples of where people think it is breaking down, there is nothing I can do.

--jeremy

BTW, rereading the thread I notice that you said "I used internet as my keyword". That is a *really* common word and due to resource issues there is a hard limit on the number of results a search will return.

--jeremy

I just ran it again and it still failed to find my thread. The search id is 2604023.

Hmm.... searching for "internet" and your username "Craigwd" in the "Debian" forum returned one result.. your thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...der=descending

Craigwd, you are just searching for the word internet in the Debain forum and are running into the hard limit of results I mentioned earlier.

--jeremy

Yeah, I know, maybe I just need to do more specific searches in the future. Though it would be a sort of added bonus if when common words like internet are searched for if the user is logged in then the search should automatically search for their username too. Call it a smarter search if you will. Sounds like a great idea that should be implemented, but only for common words like internet and the search function should only do this if instances of the word are associated with the thread's title and it needs to be smart enough to know when the user searching is also the creator of such threads (Call it a primitive AI if you want.).

Originally posted by Craigwd Yeah, I know, maybe I just need to do more specific searches in the future. Though it would be a sort of added bonus if when common words like internet are searched for if the user is logged in then the search should automatically search for their username too. Call it a smarter search if you will. Sounds like a great idea that should be implemented, but only for common words like internet and the search function should only do this if instances of the word are associated with the thread's title and it needs to be smart enough to know when the user searching is also the creator of such threads (Call it a primitive AI if you want.).

I wouldn't want this cause I'd always forget and wonder why only the threads I've posted in came up as most of the time I just search my own username if I want to find posts made by myself, other times I want to search other peoples threads as I remember what I've posted or where..