FS forum idea

[pX]

I always have a hard time searching for stuff in FS. Like, if I want a laptop, do I search for "laptop" or "notebook", or "thinkpad"? Of course, I have to search for all three. Why not make categories?

You could have some way to select a category when posting a WTB/FT/FS in the FS forum. When posting you could clock one or more categories for it show up in (like if you were selling a laptop and a video card, you could click the "notebook" and the "video card" categories). Then people could sort based on category, alleviating searching woes.

I'm not say break up FS/T into categories, I'm just suggesting a category function in the search.

Maybe it's a bad idea, I don't know.
Opinions?

 

[Drakkon]

we dont want to turn it into ebay
but an OR based search would be nice...

 

[newbiepcuser]

I don't think there is enough volume of specific items for sale for AT FS/FT forum to warrant this. Its free service.

 

[Kelemvor]

But in ANY of the forums, an OR based search would do wonders for killing reposts and stuff as well.

 

[pX]

meh, I think it'd be easy to implement and pretty awesome, but thats just me.

I agree, an OR would make things a lot better. Also, it seems if you search multiple words it takes it as a literal in the search. I.e. search thinkpad t23 and get a lot of results, search t23 thinkpad and get zero. I know there is a term for that, but I'm not sure what the term is.

 

[Kyteland]

No to be an ass, but are you people dense? The keywords AND OR NOT have been in the search feature since the upgrade.

From the help section:

To construct a search string you can use the following boolean operators: AND OR AND NOT Example: dog and cat or sheep and not bird
+ The word is mandatory in all rows returned.
- The word cannot appear in any row returned.
* The wildcard, indicating zero or more characters. It can only appear at the end of a word.
" Anything enclosed in the double quotes is taken as a whole (so you can match phrases, for example).

Edit: so
Search: laptop AND notebook - returns threads with both words
Search: laptop OR notebook - returns threads with either word
Search: laptop NOT notebook - returns threads with the first word but not the second