BattleCat Posted June 21, 2002 When i click "search forums" i'm told i don't have permission to do so. What's up with that ? 0 Share this post Link to post
oblivion Posted June 21, 2002 in their infinite wisdom the admins of this forum decided to only allow moderators and admins to search. 0 Share this post Link to post
Naked Snake Posted June 21, 2002 Yep, oblivion got it right. Only Moderators, Super Moderators and Administrators can search, regular users (at the moment, I dunno about the future) cannot search. 0 Share this post Link to post
Naked Snake Posted June 21, 2002 DooMBoy said:Why? Um...dunno, ask King Ling. Probably because he doesn't want to turn it on. I would rather have PMing. Searching isn't important. 0 Share this post Link to post
Kid Airbag Posted June 21, 2002 I'd rather have searching. If you want to PM someone, you can always contact them via: -e-mail -ICQ -AIM -IRC 0 Share this post Link to post
fraggle Posted June 21, 2002 DooMBoy said:Why? Probably because it places quite a bit of load upon the server. 0 Share this post Link to post
Smokebox Posted June 21, 2002 fraggle said:Probably because it places quite a bit of load upon the server. True enough. There's at least a thousand members on these Forums. 0 Share this post Link to post
Da_Esco² Posted June 21, 2002 Maybe they did it to make it harder for peeps to bring up old threads from WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY back in the day!? I ain't quite sure why they did it myself. 0 Share this post Link to post
Kid Airbag Posted June 21, 2002 Da_Esco² said:Maybe they did it to make it harder for peeps to bring up old threads from WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY back in the day!?If I wanted to do that, I could just click on page 50 and reply to the first thread I see. 0 Share this post Link to post
BattleCat Posted June 21, 2002 Conclusion: the mods made an irritating choice ! 0 Share this post Link to post
Naked Snake Posted June 21, 2002 EvisceratoR said:Conclusion: the mods made an irritating choice ! No the WEB MASTER made a choice to disable searches because : fraggle said:Probably because it places quite a bit of load upon the server. 0 Share this post Link to post
Linguica Posted June 21, 2002 What are you people talking about? The search page works just fine. 0 Share this post Link to post
Naked Snake Posted June 21, 2002 Linguica said:What are you people talking about? The search page works just fine. Heh, for you maybe. 0 Share this post Link to post
pritch Posted June 21, 2002 EvisceratoR said:Conclusion: the mods made an irritating choice ! Evaluation: you're a dumbass. 0 Share this post Link to post
Naked Snake Posted June 21, 2002 pritch said:Evaluation: you're a dumbass. Heh, a performance evaluation. Hehe. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted June 22, 2002 Archvile64 said:I'd rather have searching. If you want to PM someone, you can always contact them via: -e-mail -ICQ -AIM -IRC And if that doesn't work, they can just post something on the general forums like: hey DooMthing_696, I e-mailed U but U did not reply, and then i tried to get U on YIM, but U havn't been on for liek a month so I wan't U to tell me how to find wads for dOOm liek U said U would tell me. 0 Share this post Link to post
999cop Posted June 22, 2002 DooMBoy said:Why? financial trouble with getting a decent search engine for the public :/ 0 Share this post Link to post
Naked Snake Posted June 22, 2002 [03:44] <KDarigal> yeah, why the hell can't people search at all in the DW forums [03:45] <BigBadGangsta> KDarigal : moderators can [03:45] <pritch> ask the man himself, he's here [03:45] * BigBadGangsta can ^_^ [03:45] <BigBadGangsta> pritch : huh? [03:45] <Linguica> strange because i turned it back on [03:45] <KDarigal> hm [03:45] <BigBadGangsta> You did? [03:45] <BigBadGangsta> Neato [03:45] <KDarigal> how recently? [03:45] <Linguica> like yesterday 0 Share this post Link to post
KDarigal Posted June 22, 2002 Yes, and now we can actually use that lovely link that says "View New Posts". ::applauds:: 0 Share this post Link to post
Naked Snake Posted June 22, 2002 KDarigal said:Yes, and now we can actually use that lovely link that says "View New Posts". ::applauds:: Heh, we couldn't before? 0 Share this post Link to post