Timeline for Custom Filters release announcement
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| Sep 24, 2019 at 16:48 | comment | added | Kevin |
Re inquestion: That operator searches answers in terms of questions. Since that's a many-to-one relationship, it's much easier to index in one direction than in the other (as Brian has already said). Basically, you just add a question field on every answer object. Going in the other direction means a more complicated indexing stack. While I would very much like to see this feature, I'm not sure it's going to happen.
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| Jul 5, 2019 at 21:46 | comment | added | Monica Cellio Mod | @FabianRöling no, it won't match on text in the question, but it can match on text in the answer. And you can search on tags even though you're searching answers; sometimes that works better for me than text. | |
| Jul 5, 2019 at 21:15 | comment | added | Fabian Röling | Does that also search for words in the question text? | |
| Jul 5, 2019 at 16:50 | comment | added | Monica Cellio Mod |
@FabianRöling you can search for user:me is:a plus your tag or search terms to help find those. (I do that too when I see a question similar to one I know I've answered before.)
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| Jul 4, 2019 at 17:38 | comment | added | Fabian Röling | Also the opposite, questions that I have answered: I've written 422 answers on gamingSE and sometimes I remember that I have at some point written an answer to a similar question that was worded very differently, so it's hard to search for it. Usually I just use Google for that then instead of the site search, but of course that's not the intended way to do it. | |
| Jul 2, 2019 at 21:45 | comment | added | Monica Cellio Mod | Oh, I see. Yes, if I want to find the ones I have answered, that's doable. Negating it, however... | |
| Jul 2, 2019 at 21:44 | comment | added | EKons | @MonicaCellio Yeah, that's what I mean with the part in the parentheses. I just wanted to prove that determining if a specific question has been answered by someone is possible using existing search functions. | |
| Jul 2, 2019 at 21:42 | comment | added | Monica Cellio Mod | @EKons that lets me check one question (post_id is a parameter). I want to search for them -- show me all questions on this tag that I haven't answered. | |
| Jul 2, 2019 at 17:13 | comment | added | EKons |
Hm... actually, you can determine if you've answered a question yourself with inquestion:<post_id> is:a user:me, although the suggested answeredby:<user_id> would let you search for terms in the question body itself (and also use the fact that you've answered as a criterion for searching questions).
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| Jul 2, 2019 at 3:24 | comment | added | Monica Cellio Mod | @BrianNickel thanks for the response. If it could be added to search that would be good enough. Search has some support for users, so maybe it's possible to implement "answeredby:###". | |
| Jul 2, 2019 at 3:16 | comment | added | Brian Nickel StaffMod | This isn’t something we can currently do with Custom Filters. To scale, the indexing engine we use contains only a small subset of information about questions, and it doesn’t know about answerers. It doesn’t currently have any knowledge like this because it has fixed size data structures and that would have to be variable width. It may be possible to add to search, but I’m less familiar with that. | |
| Jul 2, 2019 at 2:51 | history | answered | Monica CellioMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |