I think she likes it that way. She gets to be undercover.
...burning baby fish swimming all round your head.
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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amych - Oct 01, 2002 5:12:40 pm PDT #493 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
lori - Oct 01, 2002 5:22:42 pm PDT #494 of 10000
ita is too cool.
And shockingly, I've only made 220 posts to date. Whoops, 221.
Julie - Oct 01, 2002 6:40:01 pm PDT #495 of 10000
There is a beta search here: [link] It will not search on words of 3 letters or less.
ita, is it beta 'cause you're looking for comments? Or should I hold the wishlist and just offer you praise?
Searching is the only way us thread-impaired, spoilerphobes can navigate the wild ol' interknit. Thankyou!
(edited for the auto-capitalisation of ita. I know better than to let that stand :)
§ ita § - Oct 01, 2002 7:24:42 pm PDT #496 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's beta because it needs to be modified not to present all the results at once, and some other stuff. Like, perhaps, searching under 4 letters.
amych - Oct 01, 2002 7:30:24 pm PDT #497 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
What's the four letter issue? Server load every time it goes hunting for "the" and such?
§ ita § - Oct 01, 2002 7:31:50 pm PDT #498 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's a default database setting for the full-text index feature. Presumably to limit server drain, but there's no way around it without patchy code or pleas to the web hosts. Lots of pleas.
P.M. Marc - Oct 01, 2002 7:35:47 pm PDT #499 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
The plus side of the three-letter thing is that when I decide to do a percentage of my posts mentioning X, the count's way lower than expected.
So I don't seem quite so lame to my own ears.
Jesse - Oct 01, 2002 7:37:42 pm PDT #500 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Julie, you do know that we're obsessive about segregating the spoilers in their proper threads, right?
Julie - Oct 01, 2002 7:43:39 pm PDT #501 of 10000
and some other stuff. Like, perhaps, searching under 4 letters
and.. reverse chronological sort? and, and.. displaying the source thread?
whaa-a-a-a-aat? sorry, it slipped out.
I meant to say, Yay ita! It's wonderous! :)
Julie, you do know that we're obsessive about segregating the spoilers in their proper threads, right?
Yep. And I *heart* the Buffista Island and all who sail upon her, for it.
Noumenon - Oct 01, 2002 11:01:12 pm PDT #502 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
ita, it was very thoughtful of you to make an option that only searches our subscribed threads. It keeps you from getting spoiled.