Trimming Up the Forum

paqman

This forum without all the OT stuff (and possibly politics) would die quickly IMHO

frazzdaddy

paqman said:

nolaegghead said:

(google search) site:eggheadforum.com rubmyrock

Was he real or just a troll?  I still haven’t made my mind.

Long time for a troll and no posts. Thats some deep cover

The Cen-Tex Smoker

SonnyBlack said:

Is there anyway to trim or clean up the Forum? When you come in now looking for a certain recipe or someone's time/temp, you have to filter thru endless threads of lame jokes, memes and ppl's links to moronic social media posts. For those of us who are simply looking for information, would it be possible to trim up the site or limit the amount of endless non-relevant replies to threads?  Thank you much.

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SciAggie

Make this place the way you want it to be. Post some friggin’ cooks. Ask some questions. Engage  the folks here. Nobody “controls” this forum. I have found the folks here helpful and friendly. 

The Cen-Tex Smoker

This person has 3 posts since 2014. 2 of them telling everyone else what to do to make it better for them while (shockingly) they have never offered a single contribution. 

nolaegghead

He's gifted if he was a troll.  I think not though.

The Cen-Tex Smoker

Lit said:

PigBeanUs said:

BGE Corporate does try to police the place. It’s done infrequently, and arbitrarily. 

Recently (I believe you will be happy to hear) they dragged some of the more notorious threads into an OT forum. 

This forum only exists because there are active members. In fact, it was co-opted by corporate from a family who started it themselves twenty something years ago. Sonit had this vibe long before a corporation tried to use it for marketing. 

The active members sometimes get tired of just answering the same newbie questions over and over. And they goof around. Too bad. 

Those who expect the forum to cater to their needs every four years or so when they post, are perhaps on the “naïve” end of the internet spectrum. 

If it makes you feel better, for the entirety of the twenty years, people lamented the decline of the forum, wished that it would just be all-BGE all the time, and wished the clowns would leave. 

The clowns kept answering all the questions, and the old farts have moved on. It just is how it is. 

Your question reminds me of a kid I went to grammar school with who was perturbed that the encyclopedia had all this other stuff in it in addition to the one thing he was actually interested in. 

Arent the old farts the ones controlling the forum now? You guys are all 50 plus.

Unless dying of stupidity is a thing, you will likely make it to 50 one day yourself. Although now that I think about it, if it is a thing, I don’t like your chances. 

Legume

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

SonnyBlack said:

Is there anyway to trim or clean up the Forum? When you come in now looking for a certain recipe or someone's time/temp, you have to filter thru endless threads of lame jokes, memes and ppl's links to moronic social media posts. For those of us who are simply looking for information, would it be possible to trim up the site or limit the amount of endless non-relevant replies to threads?  Thank you much.

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I can’t believe you knowingly posted a clown.

Hotch

Thanks for stopping by.

buzd504

SonnyBlack said:

Is there anyway to trim or clean up the Forum? When you come in now looking for a certain recipe or someone's time/temp, you have to filter thru endless threads of lame jokes, memes and ppl's links to moronic social media posts. For those of us who are simply looking for information, would it be possible to trim up the site or limit the amount of endless non-relevant replies to threads?  Thank you much.

Welcome to the internet.

Egg_Head_MD

Mattman3969 said:

In the search bar type whatever your looking for -re. This pulls the topics without the comments 

example 
pulled beef -re 

You have any other search tips similar to this?

nolaegghead

Egg_Head_MD said:

Mattman3969 said:

In the search bar type whatever your looking for -re. This pulls the topics without the comments 

example 
pulled beef -re 

You have any other search tips similar to this?

In the forum search window:

If you are looking for something very specific, there are some additional parameters you can use to help narrow down results.

• “keyword phrase”: A phrase wrapped in quotes must occur in that order.
• +keyword: The keyword must occur in the search result.
• -keyword: The keyword must not occur in the result.

nolaegghead

@The_Buffalo

FYI - you can mitigate these types of threads if you enable advanced search, which is available to corporate level Vanilla plans at no extra cost.

https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/14-advanced-search

Lit

Merry Christmas 

fiber_induced_deuce

nolaegghead said:

Egg_Head_MD said:

Mattman3969 said:

In the search bar type whatever your looking for -re. This pulls the topics without the comments 

example 
pulled beef -re 

You have any other search tips similar to this?

In the forum search window:

If you are looking for something very specific, there are some additional parameters you can use to help narrow down results.

• “keyword phrase”: A phrase wrapped in quotes must occur in that order.
• +keyword: The keyword must occur in the search result.
• -keyword: The keyword must not occur in the result.

No bueno.  Tried all permutations, no results that do not contain Lit.  

@Lit must be the Buffalo.