Originally Posted by RawAlex

Jim, seriously, stick with video editing, because you are pretty much failing on network and server operations. have you not noticed all the double posts, the lost posts, the threads that get "hijacked" because the original post never actually gets posted? That is database / network / server style issues that have nothing to do with anyone's connection to the internet or ISP. The proof is in the pudding, almost everyone here is saying that the board is much faster without the search running.

The question still stands. I can understand you or anyone else coming in and making maybe 1 or 2 searches a day. But there is nowhere near enough normal searches to slow the board down. That would suggest that either people are coming here and searching for their names and program names every hour of every day, are using search to find replies because they can't remember what threads they are posting in, or because people are running abusive bots that are searching all day and all night for stuff.

I know and understand the normal uses of search, but apparently it must be getting abused rather heavily for the mods to feel it would be better to turn it off.