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As some of you may have noticed, I've been trying to do a bit of research on the past nodes. I've been looking for a number of things, including best practices, specific techniques, and so on.
<P>Would anyone else find it useful to add some options to Super Search? Specifically:</P>
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<OL><LI><P>Date Range fields, for locating nodes posted during a set of time. For example, "show me all nodes referring to security in the last two years."</P></LI>
<LI><P>A Posted By field, to locate information posted by a specific user. For example, "find relevent nodes posted by merlyn."</P></LI>
<LI><P>An Ignore Posts By checkbox would return all nodes except those posted by the monk entered into Posted By. For example, "and ignore the ravings of [footpad] in this search."</P></LI>
<LI><P>An Order By field similar to the one that currently appears in PM User Search. Continuing the example: "and order them by best reputation."</P></LI>
<LI><P>A category field that restricts the search to a specific monastery area, e.g. Snippets, SOPW, etc.</P></LI>
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<P>While I hesitate to add anything to [vroom]'s plate, it seems to me that this would help improve the overall research capabilities of Super Search. After all, there is a great deal of useful information buried in various threads and these extensions might make it useful to dig that out.</P>
<P>Thoughts? Reactions? Comments?</P>