How hard would it be to exclude a topic from search?
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I'm talking, of course, about https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/10110/hey-guys-remember-how-all-the-tags-on-the-forum-are-encoded-into-every-post-form
No matter what you search, half the results are posts from that topic and it's a pain in the ass. So would it be possible to hide from the search? I have two ideas:
- Move it into a non-indexed category (but without breaking any links or hiding it from guests? Probably impossible)
- Crudely add a hard-coded condition like
AND topic_id!=10110
to whatever code indexes the posts or searches them
Edit: or make the search default to "posts from last year only". That would probably help most searches.
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@anonymous234 I'm not going to risk letting you usurp me on the recent unreplied topics page.
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@anonymous234 said in How hard would it be to exclude a topic from search?:
No matter what you search, half the results are posts from that topic
I don't recall seeing that topic in many results, if any.
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@loopback0 Oh. You mean you don't search for
ctl00$ctl00$bcr$bcr$PostForm$ctl04$TagsSubForm$AllTags
?
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@loopback0 said in How hard would it be to exclude a topic from search?:
@anonymous234 said in How hard would it be to exclude a topic from search?:
No matter what you search, half the results are posts from that topic
I don't recall seeing that topic in many results, if any.
I don't recall seeing what I've searched for in many results.
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@topspin said in How hard would it be to exclude a topic from search?:
@loopback0 said in How hard would it be to exclude a topic from search?:
@anonymous234 said in How hard would it be to exclude a topic from search?:
No matter what you search, half the results are posts from that topic
I don't recall seeing that topic in many results, if any.
I don't recall seeing what I've searched for in many results.
Also this.
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@anonymous234 said in How hard would it be to exclude a topic from search?:
half the results are posts from that topic
I have never seen this topic for five years, even in search results.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in How hard would it be to exclude a topic from search?:
@anonymous234 said in How hard would it be to exclude a topic from search?:
half the results are posts from that topic
I have never seen this topic for five years, even in search results.
and we can prove it, because it's missing @Tsaukpaetra's
likesread markers.
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@Vixen said in How hard would it be to exclude a topic from search?:
@Tsaukpaetra said in How hard would it be to exclude a topic from search?:
@anonymous234 said in How hard would it be to exclude a topic from search?:
half the results are posts from that topic
I have never seen this topic for five years, even in search results.
and we can prove it, because it's missing @Tsaukpaetra's
likesread markers.As marking one's territory goes, I can think of worse ways of doing it.