Search results and spoilers

[Katerine]

Hi,
I was just doing a "Find all posts by such-and-such" and noticed for the first time that the search results page shows text that's inside spoiler tags. Might want to do something about that... maybe have all text after the spoiler tag replaced with "[Spoiler text]"?

[Katerine]

I think you're referring to the "Mouse over thread" option.

Actually, I'm referring to something totally different, although that's also a good point

If you use the "Search Thread" option, the "Search" option in the main forum header, or the "Find all posts by user" option in the user's profile, then a search results page shows up. The page shows the thread title of the post, and the first few lines of the post.

I did a search for posts by a certain user, and saw some posts that included spoiler tags, but the search results page ignored those spoiler tags.

[Qasim]

Interesting - maybe its a problem with the new forum software

[TechnoWraith]

Hi,
I was just doing a "Find all posts by such-and-such" and noticed for the first time that the search results page shows text that's inside spoiler tags. Might want to do something about that... maybe have all text after the spoiler tag replaced with "[Spoiler text]"?

You must be referring to the Mouse-over feature. It's a new feature on the forum. Let me explain for a minute.

After you complete your search, you run your mouse cursor over the threads that come up. A little yellowish box pops up with some text in it, right? That's a mouse-over box. It gives you a run-down of the first 2 or 3 lines of text in the opening post to each thread. The Mouse-over ignores the "spoiler" tag, so anything that's a spoiler will be revealed. There's no way to really "get around" this issue. However, i've seen some posters who start their threads with spoilers insert about 4 or 5 lines at the top of their first post before using the spoiler tag to prevent the spoiler from showing up in the mouse-over box.

I ran the search like you said, and only thread titles show up, no spoiler info. The only time spoiler info comes up is in the yellowish mouse-over box.

[Qasim]

She is not referring to the mouse over she is referring to this - http://forum.gateworld.net/search.php?searchid=140211

[TechnoWraith]

That error occurs for a variety of reasons:

Reasons that i've found:

You accidently hit the "stop" button or the "back" button in the middle of a search (in other words, you hit those two buttons while the search is still performing it's search).

Sometimes the forum has a hiccup that causes the search to come up empty.

[Qasim]

You had an error oh well

Go here- http://forum.gateworld.net/member.php?u=3860 and click on 'Find all posts by TechnoWraith' thats what she means

[Bagpuss]

Actually, I'm referring to something totally different, although that's also a good point

I've deleted my previous post ,as it wasn't really relevant to this discussion.. I'm also sending you some Green as a "well-spotted" on what you've found,and as an apology.

[TechnoWraith]

You had an error oh well

Go here- http://forum.gateworld.net/member.php?u=3860 and click on 'Find all posts by TechnoWraith' thats what she means

The only thing that would probably "make the spoiler tags" work in the search results would probably be some serious re-tooling of the vBulletin software. There might be hacks/add-ons available to solve the problem. However, adding such hacks/add-ons to such a large forum like this may cause more headaches.

[Qasim]

The only thing that would probably "make the spoiler tags" work in the search results would probably be some serious re-tooling of the vBulletin software.

Has it always been like this? Have spoilers always been shown in those kinds of searches?

[TechnoWraith]

I wouldn't know because i don't use the search too often. and this thread is actually the first time that i know of that someone has brought the issue out in the open.

[knocknashee]

I'm sure that the search function used to parse all the vB codes...if you notice, none of the posts have smilies either, so it must be a general error with the search function's ability to properly convert these...

[Agent_Dark]

People use the search feature????

[Stricken]

Its such a shock, that they can actually be bothered to do so when wasting a thread is so much easier! such a shocker

[knocknashee]

People use the search feature????

I have been known to use it on occasion...