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What ever happened the similar searches module WJ used to have at the bottom of topics?

It's just with noobs asking the same questions over and over it would help them discover faster that the thing their asking has already being asked a thousand times.
Take this as an example http://www.wjunction.com/showthread.php?t=92368

If the module was still installed he wouldn't have said "there are no proper topics/post available on this issue".

Was it a resource issue or what? It's also great for SEO so I don't know why it was removed. Does anyone remember what I'm on about?


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It's good for WJ SEO as it links similar content. On warez sites where people leech and post the same content it links duplicate content with is bad. Duplicate and Similar are completely different.
 
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My hope is that these types of topics get banned: "Need forums to post uploads". What's the point of banning uploading services threads when 5 threads asking for fucking forums pop up daily.
 
It's not easy to avoid that new members make a thread that has already been made​​.

Currently, we can only realize that people are lazy, and that the rest of us have to live with it. But, I don't understand why people care so much about it, really. It's not hard to avoid pressing the thread and read the content.. Is it?
 
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It's not easy to avoid that new members make a thread that has already been made​​.

Currently, we can only realize that people are lazy, and that the rest of us have to live with it. But, I don't understand why people care so much about it, really. It's not hard to avoid pressing the thread and read the content.. Is it?
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Laziness and stupidity are things that annoy me, I can't help it. I'm sure it also annoys other members as well. As far as new members go, there could be an automatic redirect after registration, and they select for what purpose they are on wj (uploader, webmaster, graphic designer, coder) and they are sent to a FAQ page.
 
Yeah unless the forum has <1,000 threads this is indeed hard to stop. Besides, why would we want to stop "similar" threads from popping up (as in newly created threads, not the feature). Just because it was discussed several months ago doesn't mean we shouldn't revisit the topic.

Things could change, new members may contribute, different context, different answers, different content. People should probably search before posting but at the same time I don't think we should go out of our way to stop similar threads unless of course they're within the same page of each other.

RE: The module, I've been waiting for a break from my business to perform some much needed changes on the server. I'll look into getting it working a bit better (it's still on, just a little tuned down).

Edit: Should be working as per usual now.
 
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