Forum search

[tex]

Can someone please tell me how to search the forum, for example 

If I want to find out something example tyres... Most of the time I get nothing found messages... I can get some results... 

 

And how do you delete topics.. Example this one 

 

 

[Matt_S]

@tex I assume you have used the search tool at the top of the page? Then just type in a keyword in the search bar.

 

[tex]

Cheers, just sometimes with really obvious searches.... Nothing

 

So how do you delete a post you created? 

[Mike Rowland - Essex AO]

Or just use Google but search 'wscc tyres', it works better in my opinion

[Mark (smokey mow)]

15 minutes ago, tex said:

So how do you delete a post you created? 

Open the topic which  you’ve created and at the top just below the title click moderation actions and then hide.

 

[tex]

Ahhhh right.. It's never deleted just hidden 

 

[Mark (smokey mow)]

Just now, tex said:

Ahhhh right.. It's never deleted just hidden 

 

It’s been a long while since I was a moderator on these pages but back then most would only ever be hidden rather than physically deleted.

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman)]

2 hours ago, tex said:

Ahhhh right.. It's never deleted just hidden 

 

That’s right.

 

- deleting was an option years ago, but it was rapidly turned off in favour of hide, after a couple of issues where members accidentally deleted entire threads, as well as individual posts, and then the poor web master also kept getting asked to restore them from back ups.

 

With hide, if you accidentally hide something, then realise it was the wrong post, you can un-hide it without needing any outside help.

 

Moderators and admins can still delete posts, though. So occasionally, especially on really slow mobile connections, where someone’s managed to post the same thing two or three times, they’ve just asked a mod. to delete the extra “copies”!

[Captain Colonial]

It helps a lot if you search a particular forum rather than the whole site.  For example, if you go into Tech Talk first, then enter "tyres" in the search box, you get 278 pages of hits.  So then you need to make your search more specific by putting more key words like a size or manufacturer.

 

It's part of the reason the club specifies that technical questions are to be kept in Tech Talk, in order to aid faster searches.