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Fuck the searchbar.

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Billek
Posts: 5665 - Karma: 98
I am tired ov everyone saying 'searchbar' in every thread, but it is almost always negligence on the part of the OP, so I came up with an idea.

You enter your title, and a tiny box pops up, kinda like setting your password for gmail or something.  If the potential poster's thread title matches any other, the OP should be kindly reminded to search the topic.

Lets use a hypothetical topic 'Global Warming'

-The OP enters their thread title, and there could be a handy button you could press, and it determines if the same thread topic has been used before.

ex: OP types in 'Global warming', then presses the magic button and results are given

or

(this is assuming common words are automatically omitted from the search.
-The title box updates itself with every word typed, and it could use cool color combinations with each level of threat.

ex: OP wants to type 'Thoughts on global warming?'

'thoughts on' could yield a green/good to go indicator, then it would turn orange once 'global' has been typed, then 'warming' will prompt the user to search the topic (or it could provide a link which brings you the results of the 'global warming' topic.

I know that was confusing and possibly impossible to implement, but I thought that I'd share my idea.


May 27 2009 10:56PM
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ReedSkis~
Posts: 2122 - Karma: 98
I like it

but why don't people just stop saying searchbar and answer? cuz now when i do searchbar i just get replies saying "searchbar" its getting annoying. We need new replies to threads besides searchbar...
May 27 2009 11:22PM
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.jr
Posts: 5313 - Karma: 356
repost.


searchbar next time.
May 27 2009 11:54PM
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kepler.
Posts: 8761 - Karma: 139
People are too quick to should "searchbar" sometimes. You could be posting a legitimate thread that has a different spin or different question than another thread. The problem is, the same questions are often answered 10, 20, 30 times in a single week.

It seems like twice a day we get a thread about some kid asking if he'll pass a drug test if it's so far away and he does whatever. That person needs to realize his case isn't special and he'll get his answer if he just does a little research.

I also think people are just too lazy to look. Often times people will search a topic on NS, see that they are old threads, and just create a new one because they are too lazy to look through them.

With that said I really like your idea OP. Could be hard to implement but I feel like it could dramatically cut down on reposts. And I think the banhammer should be promptly thrown down when people repost unnecessarily.
May 28 2009 4:17PM
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Funnel
Posts: 7816 - Karma: 1,534
If you say searchbar.  You should go and look up the thread and find it for the OP.  I hate people who say searchbar, even though the thread has never been created before.  Pisses me off so much.
May 28 2009 6:30PM
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Drail
Posts: 14012 - Karma: 10,011
Everything has been done, nothing is original.

really though, I do think it's stupid that people just reply with "searchbar" 'cause if they really care, they should add a link to the previous thread about said subject.

May 30 2009 6:22PM
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TheBeardedOne
Posts: 2286 - Karma: 58
quality post.


to the OP, great idea but it would take a little while to code.. atlewst for me
May 31 2009 3:43AM
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Tinga
Posts: 11349 - Karma: 2,333
yeah i made a thread about making thread tags before. It didn't get too much attention. Basically the same idea as when you put videos on youtube videos and such. I think it would be pretty sweet.
May 31 2009 3:57AM
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.SimonB.
Posts: 1959 - Karma: 713
people waste their time commenting "searchbar", when in the same amount of time, they could help a fellow NSer out. its wrong.
May 31 2009 5:38PM
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