Search Feature: What the heck were you using it for?

**RawAlex** · 10-14-2007, 08:26 PM

Pap, that is my thought as well, bots. I suspect that some people are running bots just looking for new threads to post garbage comments into automatically to spam their sigs (and collect their pay), and also from the paranoid people who have to check their name, their program name, each of their domain names and 101 other things every hour to make sure that nobody is talking bad about them.

Whatever it is, I can only say that since this change has come in, the board has not timed out, posting is easy, and there also seems to be less crap on the board. All good, I guess.

**Bro Media - BANNED FOR LIFE** · 10-14-2007, 09:06 PM

Originally posted by martinsc

i used the "new posts" search a lot....

exactly what i use it for

**Emil** · 10-14-2007, 09:55 PM

I use it to search for threads I want to find!

**pr0** · 10-14-2007, 09:58 PM

i miss it

**ThumbLord** · 10-15-2007, 08:58 AM

check for scammers since they do not get banned

**Angie77** · 10-15-2007, 09:19 AM

I just enjoyed the "New Posts" feature.

**Fap** · 10-15-2007, 10:30 AM

I found it very useful to check on my threads to see if anyone replied... i feel lost without it

**u-Bob** · 10-15-2007, 10:56 AM

Originally posted by Xplicit

I use it to followup my own posts/replies without having to search through tons of pages.

same here.

Originally posted by RawAlex

Perhaps we need a "program news" board here, so that programs could better explain themselves to people and keep things current?

That's the last thing we need. The worst boards out there are those boards with tons of different sub-forums.

Originally posted by tony404

Jim you must have a magic connection lol because it times out on me and can be as slow as when I was on a 56k modem.The increase in speed since the search has been disabled is amazing.

what he said.

**Pornwolf** · 10-15-2007, 11:52 AM

Originally posted by RawAlex

Pap, that is my thought as well, bots. I suspect that some people are running bots just looking for new threads to post garbage comments into automatically to spam their sigs (and collect their pay), and also from the paranoid people who have to check their name, their program name, each of their domain names and 101 other things every hour to make sure that nobody is talking bad about them.

Whatever it is, I can only say that since this change has come in, the board has not timed out, posting is easy, and there also seems to be less crap on the board. All good, I guess.

If that's true then it sounds like the solution is in adding captcha into the search form.

**CynthiaB** · 10-15-2007, 12:07 PM

I used it to search for threads about Red Light Revenue sometimes, but mostly to look up threads on niches and ideas that I'm working with right now.

**Xplicit** · 10-15-2007, 12:09 PM

Originally posted by RawAlex

Whatever it is, I can only say that since this change has come in, the board has not timed out, posting is easy, and there also seems to be less crap on the board. All good, I guess.

Yes but the fact is on the internet 'search' is a standard feature for any site that holds this much data.

Surfer forums bigger then this manage to have a working search AND a fast forum.

As users of this site, WE are the ones who have made this site valuable. They sell banner spots at the top, small ones at the bottom, and for christs sake they sell the entire skin - yet we, those same users the advertisers pay GFY to target apparently don't even deserve a working search feature???

We're getting the short end of the stick here. GFY makes a load of cash, and spends maybe %10 of that income on giving us a working board.

Unless something changes soon, mark my words, this site will be nothing but spam from programs, newbies, and surfers within 2 years. Real industry pro's will migrate to one of the many better working alternatives.

Search Feature: What the heck were you using it for?

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