Re: constrain User Search with the "showtype" param

On the other hand, I'm not sure why Perl Monks User Search allows to order by node rep in the first place. I feel that, at the very least, either the ability to constrain by type (or anything else), or the ability to order by rep, should be eliminated from Perl Monks User Search. Of course, if the latter is eliminated, then it becomes merely a special case of Super Search, in which case it may as well simply go to Super Search, rather than being a separate function node.

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Re^2: constrain User Search with the "showtype" param by shmem (Chancellor) on Apr 30, 2007 at 14:21 UTC
I feel that, at the very least, either the ability to constain by type (or anything else), or the ability to order by rep, should be eliminated from Perl Monks User Search. So you feel that, but why? Is it evil to search for meditations only? Or does evil stem from ordering someone's nodes by reputation? Or does the evil only come forth with the combination of both? In any of these cases, what exactly is the evil? Why is sorting some nodes by reputation (Best Nodes) and Monks by XP (Saints in our Book, Other Users Nodelet) tolerable, while sorting just one Monk's meditations or obfus by reputation is not? --shmem _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo. G°\ / /\_¯/(q / ---------------------------- \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."· ");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}	[reply]
Re^3: constrain User Search with the "showtype" param by tye (Sage) on Apr 30, 2007 at 14:54 UTC
Patch nodes-by-user (that node with the really stupid name that makes it sound like a place to search for PerlMonks users) to sort by something other than reputation if the type is constrained and I'll apply your patch. - tye	[reply]