Give the newbs a break?

[zanthor]

Sometimes I feel compelled to give the new guys a break... the simple answer of "Why don't you search" isn't always viable...



Of course, the opposite is also true, search for recruit-a-friend and you get flooded with mostly useless information...

Searching is an art form to say the least, and artists are rare.

[Ðeceased]

yeah had that happen to me a lot too :S

[Drizzit]

Yea, the search isn't the greatest. I think you need 4 chars min to do a search. I tried to do searches for AV, BG, WSG, EYE, etc... but nothing comes up and i know that people talk about that all the time.

[Thulos]

Searching is an art form to say the least, and artists are rare.

This is my biggest problem. I'm very bad with search engines. I tend to be forgiving on a lot of things that people catch grief about on this site. The only time I'm not forgiving is if its stickied information or stuff that's right in Multiboxing 101 on the wiki.

[Ellay]

Yar, I enjoy the chatter quite a bit - it's a hustle and bustle kind of town here in general and we need to maintain and our friendly atmosphere and not being elitists

[Wilbur]

We setup a bot in IRC to just enter the google search string for whatever you are looking for on the site.

Works very effectively.

[Havelcek]

You don't need a search feature for RAF...its half the threads on the first page.

[Drizzit]

just make fur post a sticky... lol it has all of them

[Awbee]

I think the point he was trying to make is that the search feature for the forums is not as useful as we would want it to be for the newer visiters.

Ellay or Wilbur is there a way to include one of Google's community search coding into this forum?

[Ellay]

Got a linky to it by chance?