View Full Version : Great vBulletin feature suggestion!
daphatty
11-03-2007, 05:04 AM
I was over at the AVS forums and I noticed they've added a new "auto-search" feature to the New Thread option in vBulletin. When a user creates a new topic and enters a Title for the topic, the forum will take that entry, automatically search for similar threads, and show the user a list of recommended threads the visit before starting a new thread. AWESOME! Here's a screenshot of what I mean.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v103/daphatty/vB-Search-Feature.jpg
Scorch
11-03-2007, 05:09 AM
I'd be out of a job!
daphatty
11-03-2007, 06:01 AM
I definitely see a decline in Troll activity with this feature. At the very least, it would minimize the number of hateful, "Do a search, Noob" responses.
Ugamer_X
11-03-2007, 08:30 AM
I definitely see a decline in Troll activity with this feature. At the very least, it would minimize the number of hateful, "Do a search, Noob" responses.
It's a novel idea, but wouldn't it mean that it would search using the CAG search engine? That's not exactly the most productive feature.
I'd like to see a Wikipost feature similar to what Slickdeals has. Especially for those deals where the OP never updates the first post and we have CAGs asking the same questions over and over again because they can't find the answers buried into 20+ pages of posts.
daphatty
11-03-2007, 10:26 AM
It's a novel idea, but wouldn't it mean that it would search using the CAG search engine? That's not exactly the most productive feature.
I'd like to see a Wikipost feature similar to what Slickdeals has. Especially for those deals where the OP never updates the first post and we have CAGs asking the same questions over and over again because they can't find the answers buried into 20+ pages of posts.
Well, I don't know how exactly the addon works, but based on the results I received it seems like the addon tries to match up similarly named thread titles. The search criteria popped up so fast that I doubt the AVS forum search engine had time to do a thorough search through individual messages. (Remember, I'm in Indonesia so fast results means a shortcut was taken someplace. ;) ) As a method of diminishing duplicate threads, IMO, this solution would work well.