While starting a new thread at avsforums, on entering the thread title, I was shown threads with similar titles and was asked to go through them before posting. Seems like a great idea to reduce threads with similar content. http://www.imgx.org/pthumbs/small/3293/avs.jpg
We had a similar feature which showed related threads, but putting this thing in the thread creation stage seems really useful to me.
This feature was there long back on TE (but avs have used it in a really smart way) It was called ‘similar threads’ and would show up below each thread.
It was disabled since no one really used it and was very server intensive
wanna bet that smarta$$e$ will still go ahead and post a thread expecting a total custom solution to what they think is a unique query??
Not to mention expecting replies as fast as insant noodles or coffee.
But yes, i too agree that will help to some extent for sure. :thumb:
the related threads thingie seems like a bad idea . cos all the threads would have to be updated some time or the other , and it would be a load on the db server. On the other hand , this seems to be just a one time search ( unless its one of them ajaxy find-as-you-type thingies), which shouldnt load the server more than a search before posting a thread