• I've been meaning to ask--is the search word filter too restrictive?

    It's occurred to me with a few threads that I can't find them because none of the words in the title are accepted by the search. An example is a thread I started recently called 'We're all in this together'. When I search for the whole title (including 'we're'), I get:

    Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms. The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search : all, in, this, together

    sumo reminded me of this last night:

    I know this is a merging thread, but could you take "everybody" off the filter for searching. It always takes me aged to find the "what is everybody up to" thread because all the words are filtered.

    I don't really know how to address the problem, as I assume the list of excluded words is very long and would take ages to edit by hand, but I suspect that removing all really long words like 'everybody' and 'together' from it would be more easily possible?

    In any event, it's good advice for thread-starting to include distinctive or unusual words, as that causes threads to be more easily remembered and used.

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