Just.. thisI dunno, I think biker is onto a good thing with hitting the member on the nose with a newspaper approach. If I had to improve upon that, I would ensure that the newspaper used is the Sunday edition, as they hold more pages to effectively get that point across when a member refuses to read and he/she gets belted on the nose with the extra thick, more paged sunday editon. (news of the world) comes to mind.
Personally, I think I admire Bikers approach. And to extend on that where Maddox said it best but I'll change the wording slightly
If your members don't look like this when your log onto your site, your failing as an admin
I can't say I've ever really had a problem searching.
I've certainly never had to use Google.
It comes down to knowing what you're looking for. People are quick to blame the search here, but what are they actually typing? Like Brogan, I haven't had any issues searching for things, and I don't think I'm actually being very specific at times or feel like I need to except for rare instances (but that happens even with Google).Take a real poll here if you have interest in what people do and whether they find what they are looking for.
I'd say I am rarely able to find what I am looking for without very exact wording. In fact, I have started purposely wording my answers and post here so that the XF search can find them!
I don't consider it an XF fault, just that most people are used to the very high intelligence (fuzziness) built into google, and having to be exact (no relation of one term to another, mis-spellings, etc.) is not part of our everyday search experience on the modern web.
This needs to be a core feature!Why stop at a timer and check box for confused newbies who just need help and reassurance? Why not electrocute them, or shoot them? Problem solved and it will send an important message to other newbies who dare to ask the same questions over and over
I'm pretty sure if you redirected a new user to a page that had something like:
<blink>Read this before you continue!</blink>
Solution
Maybe a drop down suggesting an auto-complete, much like Google uses on their search.
To suggest that. the system would need to have the algorithms behind it.
Quickie example - if you put "find theads with no answer" in google, they know you meant "threads". As you said, unless you use the best keywords you are not going to find the stuff.
The proof is in the pudding.
Goog is one of the largest companies and best brands in the world because they did search better than others...
Many people here are in the 1 or 2% of top knowledgeable internet users. Just having or wanting to install a forum puts you in the top 1/4 or so (a guess!).
I could give lots of exact examples of what I can find here in goog and not with XF search, but I assume those who know that...already know that!
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