BBS Search Function

[mussie]

Someone made a post about using the BBS Search Function I cant find it.

How do I search for a phrase

I have tried

"dive bombing buffs"

dive AND bombing AND buffs

dive AND AND bombing  AND AND buffs

diveANDbombingANDbuffs

"dive AND bombing AND buffs"

I keep getting threads that contain dive bombing I only want threads with dive bombing buffs

What should my search string

Thanks

[Schatzi]

What search function do you use mussie? The one at the bottom of each forum or the "advanced" search tab at top of BBS?



For the advanced search:

Basic query:  separate your search terms with spaces.

Advanced query: Join words with AND, OR and NOT to control your search in more detail.
Add asterisks (*) to use wild cards in your search (*bullet* matches vBulletin etc.)

If i know someone that has posted in the thread im looking for, i usually have more luck also adding the name to the search words.



Edit: I searched for dive bombing buffs (search by key words) and mussie (search by user name) in the advanced search page. The thread you looking for among the results?

http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=260716&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending

[Obie303]

Try changing your search.  Instead of "dive bombing" try "attacking" or "strafing".  Hope that helps.

Obie

[mussie]

Hey Ya Schatzi

I was actually trying to collect totals for negative post on the BBS.

http://www.flyaceshigh.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=2173079#post2173079

In the end I got the data I wanted but I know that it is not perfect, so lets just call it quick and dirty.....

The problem was that I wanted to refine the search so that exact phrases were found

IE: I searched for dive bombing buffs and would get threads that contain dive bombing and the word Buff so it may not relate to the problem of Buffs being used as dive bombers.

[B]STRING POST COUNT[/B]
dive bombing buffs 146
porking 770
hoard 263
score potato 199
rank 2464
pork 1719
perk the 5818
uber rides 283
vulch 2178
furballer 410
lame 2335
suicide buffs 201
dropping the hangers 113
kill messages 403
easy mode 723
fighter town 681
tank town 608
drones 1588
easymode 202
wine 1139
whine 4865
Cherry Picking 386

I took a look on the net and from what I can gather earlier versions of vBulletin do not appear to support full text searches. (I think it has somthing to do with the mysql back end)

With 2,101,658 Posts I can understand that most three letter words are not included in the search indexes. But It would be nice if we could search thread titles for words like P51, LA7 and ORD.

Later

[Schatzi]

Hehe mussie, i get it now

If its important for you, id mail/call Skuzzy about it.

As for whining... i think the community needs it, no CRAVES it. I mean, *how* long did it take for the "perk the Hurr2C" thread to pop up after the creation of the EWA? LoL, mustve been a new record.

[mussie]

Nah Schatzi, I wont bug skuzzy with it, He has enough on his plate to deal with...

I just wanted to show (in the integrety thread) what I thought was evidence of problems in the AH community....

Mind you it would be nice to be able to see how many threads were titled "Perk the LA"..... (Just out of curiosity:))

Thanks Mate

P.S. I never thought I would see "perk the Hurr2C".... LOL

[The Fugitive]

you got to remember that a very small percentage of people that fly AH come any where near these boards let alone post anything. Using the boards would be a poor infomation source to back up any kind of data.

[DamnedRen]

I have a picket fence I need to install.....since yer not doin much.....