would probably require some extensive database modifications. aka expensive
Excellent idea!
Excellent idea!
There is a perfectly good feature already available - performing a search on a keyword from the title before posting.
I *just* posted an article I was reading in our local rag. When I went online to retreive the story, it was under a different headline. ( on the paper’s web page)
What’s a poster to do?
Since most of us are not able to watch the thread constantly I prefer an article to reappear some hours later.
If I have already seen and/or participated I simply move on by.
I am posting from Asia.
Sometimes, after writing my reply, and after clicking on the “post” button, nothing at all happens that I can tell. The posting page remains on the screen. I look down at the connection icon, and it looks as though no data is being passed.
So, I click “post” again, and THEN I discover that it had posted the first time as well, with NO IDICATION whatsoever on my screen that the first one went through.
Hence, double post.
I'm sure, in an 'emergency' we'd have smooth sailing through any gummint crackdown on the internet.
No, really ... I'm SURE of it.
Life gets so complicated at times. But we must carry on.
Then, we just install a thingamajig and it should work just fine.
Wait...what were we talking about again?
It might help if Freerepublic goes back to the old search format that worked OK instead of the only search format worse than one found on Windows Vista’s that we have now.
This new search has a tendency to switch from searching Titles to keywords without you knowing it. Keywords don’t often match the title and sometimes the poster of the original thread doesn’t put any keywords at all.
That can lead to a poster not finding the original thread.
When you fill out the form to post an article, and then hit “post,” the software kicks in and tells you if an article must be excerpted/isn’t allowed ...why can’t the software be programmed to do a word search for the title at that time?
I have posted a couple of vanity postings but never an article. I think I have found a good one, have searched for key words in title and it doesn’t come up. Where do I find the rules about if I can post the full article or just a link based on the name of the newspaper/magazine I am posting from?