Resolved Excluding User Signature Info From Search is Good and this Thread is No Longer of Use To Anyone

[BrianBaughn]

I think it would be a good idea to exclude users signature info from search or at least have the option to do so.

Signatures often contain a list of the user's equipment and...if you're doing a search for a specific piece of equipment that happens to be in one or more user signatures...your results will include every post that user has made regardless of its pertinence.

Edit: It does. My mistake.

 

[WildCowboy]

Signatures should not be included in search results and I'm not seeing them there. For example, if I search on your last name, I don't get every post of yours even though it's in your signature.

Can you share a specific example where you're seeing the issue?

 

[willmtaylor]

I think it would be a good idea to exclude users signature info from search or at least have the option to do so.

Signatures often contain a list of the user's equipment and...if you're doing a search for a specific piece of equipment that happens to be in one or more user signatures...your results will include every post that user has made regardless of its pertinence.

I searched "Baltimore" and came up empty.

 

[chown33]

I searched "Baltimore" and came up empty.
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You have to say "apple core".

 

[BrianBaughn]

My mistake! I had me/us confused with me/them at a different forum.