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(Message started by: william wu on Jul 30th, 2002, 5:33am)

Title: PLEASE CHECK FOR EXISTING THREADS!!!
Post by william wu on Jul 30th, 2002, 5:33am
Before posting a topic, please check if a thread already exists for it. I know it is annoying to have to search for your topic. However, it's even more annoying to have a bunch of disjoint threads hanging around on the same topic. If too many disjoint threads on the same topic are developed, I'll delete some of them, and they might be yours.

Title: Re: PLEASE CHECK FOR EXISTING THREADS!!!
Post by Kurt on Aug 8th, 2002, 2:12am
It would be much easyer if the threads were in the same order as the riddles.


Title: Re: PLEASE CHECK FOR EXISTING THREADS!!!
Post by william wu on Aug 8th, 2002, 5:31pm
Yes, I agree. If I ever get time to database the site, I mightl include a forum link for each riddle, so there's no search time wasted. In the meantime, a quick fix would be to alphabetize topics. However, I don't even know how to automate that. It doesn't seem to be a feature built into YaBB, and I looked for mods but to no avail. If anyone knows how to hack YaBB so that it automatically sorts topics in alphabetical order -- but perhaps puts the 10 most recent topics at the very top -- please post to the "suggestions and help" forum.

Title: Re: PLEASE CHECK FOR EXISTING THREADS!!!
Post by adityamp10 on Oct 4th, 2007, 1:54am
Is there a problem with searching the forum? I tried searching for "brown eyes and red eyes" topic but YaBB tells me that there are no topics with this name. But, someone later pointed out a thread with that subject!

Title: Re: PLEASE CHECK FOR EXISTING THREADS!!!
Post by towr on Oct 4th, 2007, 2:04am

on 10/04/07 at 01:54:09, adityamp10 wrote:
Is there a problem with searching the forum? I tried searching for "brown eyes and red eyes" topic but YaBB tells me that there are no topics with this name. But, someone later pointed out a thread with that subject!
Perhaps the thread was older than the default age it searches on. That's, unfortunately, a common issue.

Title: Re: PLEASE CHECK FOR EXISTING THREADS!!!
Post by william wu on Aug 11th, 2012, 3:25pm
I've now increased the default max age to 15 years.

Title: Re: PLEASE CHECK FOR EXISTING THREADS!!!
Post by benmartorano on Oct 5th, 2012, 2:42pm
kinda hard to do a search before posting each and every time.....

Title: Re: PLEASE CHECK FOR EXISTING THREADS!!!
Post by towr on Oct 6th, 2012, 12:10am
How many threads do you intend to start per day?
Though if you'd said, "kind of hard to do a search.", I'd have to agree :P



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