Question that were closed, had no answer, flawed or were simply bad questions should not show up in search query, esp at top. This will great increase the hits on the good ones thus increasing productivity.
Repro: Search
select query no output
in stackoverflow and the first result you get is close question with no answer and there is nothing useful in the question itself.
I disagree totally. You should be able to find what you're searching for by default, there shouldn't be flags to enable full search instead of flags to limit search.
I'm going to status-declined this because we don't want to auto-filter results in search, it's unintuitive behavior that doesn't really address the problem here.
The problem isn't that there's a really bad question at the top of your search results. The problem is there's a really bad question, which should have been (and was) deleted.
Now, with the same search, you see relevant results without the clutter.
We should't be avoiding really bad content and spending effort in code to filter it from search, we should be cleaning the content up. Always address the problem, not the symptoms, whenever possible.
votes:1 operator, etc...we offer several options to refine your search if you don't like the default relevancy based results (like google does...)
You can already to that yourself:
select query no output votes:0
will only list question with votes >= 0.
select query no ouput votes:+5
will only list questions with votes >= +5.
