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Strange: searching threads for an user -> is it a bug?
Today I decided to start marking my older threads as solved, which most of them are. How to find them? Searching, as I tried. But the results are not as good as possible: they give us posts which are not the thread head, resulting in duplicate results and making it harder to find what I want.
For example, the first 4 results of threads by me are: -- [SOLVED] Can I guarantee that I file is not deleted by making a hard link to it? -- Bash completion was wrong => commented => what was the problem? -- [SOLVED] Can I guarantee that I file is not deleted by making a hard link to it? -- [SOLVED] Can I guarantee that I file is not deleted by making a hard link to it? -- And the duplicates keep repeating threads that were already given. |
Searching on this site is a constant frustration. Yesterday a multi-word search kept returning logical OR searches (showed in the header) - even when I explicitly added AND. jeremy has stated this doesn't happen. Seems erratic - I wonder if they did a code update recently.
I gave up and used google with "site:" |
Down at the bottom of the advanced search page, there is an option to show results as "Threads" or "Posts". If you select "Threads" you should see just a single result for the head of each matching thread.
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- although they still have duplicates: -- Strange: searching threads for an user -> is it a bug? [SOLVED] Can I guarantee that I file is not deleted by making a hard link to it? Bash completion was wrong => commented => what was the problem? Book "Compiler Construction using Flex and Bison" - problems, discussions, steps, ... ( 1 2 3 4 ) And bash history dups still exist... a lot... ( 1 2 ) [SOLVED] Is there a Markdown text mode viewer? ( 1 2 ) [SOLVED] Show date and time in a chosen timezone? [SOLVED] We cannot edit after sometime? Nonpermanent links in messages for subscribed threads Bad links for "Did you find this post helpful? Yes" [SOLVED] A Bison problem: should it work as it is? ( 1 2 ) Extra space on [code] sections? [SOLVED] Flex (and "close" packages) : why gcc cannot find lib fl? ( 1 2 ) -- |
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The catch in this thread is that I needed to read and change, in the search page, the bottom option to make sense of the choice at the top, "Search by username¹" group: "find threads started by user". This choice should imply in selecting "Show Results as Threads", since the other option does not make much sense.
¹ Username: shouldn't it be only one word there? |
Using the "My Threads" link will also accomplish what you want.
--jeremy |
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O-: I did not know about that, and did not imagine it, thinking that the search I did was the natural easy way. |
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I just reran the search and it (sort of) worked. - select "last 3 months", no hits. Changed to "anytime" and first few results were within 3 months. It looks like entire threads are searched and a post is selected for display - any post containing some (not necessarily all) search term(s). Counter-intuitive to me. - selecting "show results as" thread or post changes the results - it says show, not "alter search as ". Most of the time I manage to find what I want - sometimes a timely threads allows me to vent. |
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