Could you please try to explain this more clearly?

Super Search will tell you "User "0" does not exist" if you search for nodes authored by "0", that is, if you enter "0", without the quotes, into the field found after "(*) Match -or- (*) Exclude authors".

If you wanted to try to validate this assertion, then super search isn't the best tool for it. The closest you could come with it would be to enter "0" (without the quotes) into the "Match titles containing" field, check the "User" box, and select the "Don't include replies" button. (Well, you could come even closer if you also entered something like "s t r l e n _", without the quotes, into the field after "Skip titles containing" to greatly shorten the number of matches returned.)

This will list the first N users (likely 50, depends on load) who have a zero in their name. Then you could look down the list for users with the name "0", click "Next >", repeat... until you have seen that Super Search was correct when it said that.

But you can't create a user called "0" and (mostly because "0" is false in Perl) you can't even do a simple search (the box at the top of each page) for just "0" (which would be a better way to check whether a specific short username existed). You can't even (any more) create users with just digits in their names.

I tried to figure out what you had done to "get 50 NodeReaper entries" but failed to. But whatever it was, I strongly suspect is has very little to do with whether there is a user called "0".

So I think you are confused about what Super Search is doing in some cases. I'm not very surprised at that and now that the Site Documentation Clan is kicking some serious boots, maybe we'll get some documentation for Super Search that will help.

So I'd be interested to understand what you tried and what you thought it was going to do, as it might suggest changes to the layout/wording on Super Search that would make things clearer.

                - tye

In reply to Re: Looking for '0' (Looking for Monks) (what?) by tye
in thread Looking for '0' (Looking for Monks) by graq

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