Although, in defense of any genuine-intentioned follow-on posters, the ability to search prior posts on this site is fairly crap, for two main reasons I see:
too many people type in ABSOLUTELY WORTHLESS post titles (mostly of the "oh, look at me, I'm being so cute and cryptic!" vein)
Search only seems to search the title field, and not the body of the message
Feature request: It shouldn't be too hard to implement an alert when posting a link similar to one already posted by comparing the text behind the inputted link to the text behind prior-posted links.
If it shows up anywhere else in the press, there will be 10 more posts about it in the next hour ?
Oh, it probably won't even take that.
Although, in defense of any genuine-intentioned follow-on posters, the ability to search prior posts on this site is fairly crap, for two main reasons I see:
too many people type in ABSOLUTELY WORTHLESS post titles (mostly of the "oh, look at me, I'm being so cute and cryptic!" vein)
Search only seems to search the title field, and not the body of the message
Feature request: It shouldn't be too hard to implement an alert when posting a link similar to one already posted by comparing the text behind the inputted link to the text behind prior-posted links.
Agreed. Titles are simply abysmal lately...
And then proceeds to post the same article that others have posted with equally abysmal titles.
It's impossible to search using titles like these.
Or it’s just a string of emojis