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rac
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 Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 10:14 pm Post subject: new search stopwords list |
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We've analyzed the most commonly occurring words on the forums, and made some additions to the stopword list. Attempting to search using any of these words won't return any posts, and if you combine a stopword with other legitimate terms, the stopword just gets ignored.
Here's the current list, including both upstream phpBB's entry and ours:
AFAIK
I
IIRC
Ive
LOL
ROTF
ROTFLMAO
YMMV
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klieber
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| Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 12:11 am Post subject: |
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To follow up on rac's post, the reason we did this was to reduce the size of our search database in mysql. It was overwhelming the database server and causing the slowdowns that people have been experiencing recently.
--kurt
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kamagurka
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| Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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would it be possible to have the search throw an informative error when searching for stopwords instead of just saying "no posts found"?
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rac
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| Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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It might be possible to change the message to something like "none of your search terms were usable" in the case where you enter only stopwords. Telling you that some of your terms were used, but not others, would be considerably harder.
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Gentree
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| Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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| klieber wrote: | To follow up on rac's post, the reason we did this was to reduce the size of our search database in mysql. It was overwhelming the database server and causing the slowdowns that people have been experiencing recently.
--kurt |
You may like to consider how much the lack of an effective search tool is burdgeoning the database.
People cant find what's there, make a new post and there's a new thread of 10 or 20 posts.
Before too long this will become unmanagable and the forum will break.
Without the forum Gentoo would be of limitted use.
I have made concrete suggestions in other posts today.
HTH 
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Deathwing00
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| Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 1:27 am Post subject: |
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| I made this one sticky... I think it's important to know what words are filtered. |
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c45207
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| Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 3:25 am Post subject: |
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| Is there any way to override this? For example, today I wanted to find "You have new mail in". However, only mail is a searchable word, so I go lots of useless posts. |
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ian!
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| Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 7:06 am Post subject: |
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| c45207 wrote: | | Is there any way to override this? |
No.
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Wicked Wesley
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| Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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Just to let you know, the word but is in there twice!
Have a nice day!
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knefas
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Ohh...also two days, have and this  |
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masseya
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| Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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Those are particularly insidious words that absolutely have to be stopped so we put the second entry in the stopwords list sort of as a way to add injury to insult for the many weeks of futile searching those words have caused.
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SubAtomic
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 3:24 am Post subject: |
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What about RTFM and rtfm, IMHO and imho?
Would a "Suggest words to add to the stopwords list" thread topic (possibly in the Feedback section) be of use? Im thinking of something similar to the report spammers thread.
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cokey
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I think "compile" and "error(s)" should be taken out, after all this is gentoo not SuSE
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masseya
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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| cokehabit wrote: | | I think "compile" and "error(s)" should be taken out, after all this is gentoo not SuSE |
The reason these words are on the list is that they are too commonly appearing to actually be of use in identifying a particular thread. There are so many posts with the words 'compile' or 'error' that it's not a useful descriptor. If I were trying to describe myself to you so you could pick me out of a crowd at an amusement park I would want to avoid a description such as "medium height with blue jeans, sneakers and a tshirt" because it wouldn't really tell you anything that would set me apart from virtually everyone else. This is essentially the kind of description you get when searching for the words 'compile' and 'error'.
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kallamej
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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Heh, error is not in the list, actually.
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cokey
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 7:52 am Post subject: |
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| kallamej wrote: | | Heh, error is not in the list, actually. |
errors is so i put it in bracket(s)
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masseya
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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| kallamej wrote: | | Heh, error is not in the list, actually. |
lol.. We should, like, add that and stuff.
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cokey
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is there any way to make the gentoo forums searchable through google like wikipedia is? Perhaps somone could speak to them? That would sort out the seach database while offering google free advertising every time someone searches through gentoo.
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kallamej
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Yes, the forums are google searchable, but there are only about 30K pages indexed. It's increasing quite nicely since the urls got html-ised, though.
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Satori80
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| Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 11:19 am Post subject: |
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| Why don't you guys try to get a consensus? I for one would rather have a slow useful search database than a quick irrelevant one. |
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curtis119
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| Satori80 wrote: | | Why don't you guys try to get a consensus? I for one would rather have a slow useful search database than a quick irrelevant one. |
The stop words list is attempting to do both. A quick and relevant search. It's gotten so much better since rac and ian! starting actively doing this. I search constantly and have noticed a significant difference in quality of results.
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Satori80
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| masseya wrote: | | cokehabit wrote: | | I think "compile" and "error(s)" should be taken out, after all this is gentoo not SuSE |
The reason these words are on the list is that they are too commonly appearing to actually be of use in identifying a particular thread. There are so many posts with the words 'compile' or 'error' that it's not a useful descriptor. |
It isn't the words in and of themselves that make them useful or not. It's the use of the words in combination with other specific words. For instance, those generated in an error message. If the search finds all the terms in the error message, you can quickly find the subject of your concern. Without the right words at your disposal, you'll have to fish around through irrelevant topics to try and find what you need to get your system back on its feet. I've found myself in this second situation more often than usual the past few days more than once without resolution to my issue. Now I know why. It isn't because the issue isn't in the forums, it's because it can't be found due to a flaky search. And frankly, I'm pissed about it.
There is a reason error messages are generated in the first place. If you can't make the forums able to find specific input then why bother devoting the resources to keep them online? I always used the forums as a troubleshooting tool in the past. Apparently, I can no longer do that. Too bad for me, huh? |
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Satori80
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Look, I'm sorry if that last post came off as crass. I wasn't trying to insult anybody, and I didn't mean it as directing my frustration on any one person in particular.
But the sentiment is valid. I mean look at that list. "Man" is in the list? If I have an issue with the "man" program I can't directly look for a resolution to my issue in these forums? Common guys, give us a fighting chance. |
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cokey
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| curtis119 wrote: | | Satori80 wrote: | | Why don't you guys try to get a consensus? I for one would rather have a slow useful search database than a quick irrelevant one. |
The stop words list is attempting to do both. A quick and relevant search. It's gotten so much better since rac and ian! starting actively doing this. I search constantly and have noticed a significant difference in quality of results. |
I've noticed the opposite, i continually miss threads or have no threads come up at all where i would expect at least a few. VERY infuriating if you cannot ONE SINGLE THREAD up. It just makes it look broken.
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