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Originally posted by riahc4
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Originally posted by djdannyp
So you want to search manually through the 550 scripts in the database?
if you need any more information on it, you search the forum for the name of that script and you'll find its relevant thread(s)
So you know the name of all ~550 scripts?
A) If you are a regular here (which you're suppose to be I think), you would roughly know in what direction you need to search, or what kind of scripts have been made. You can use this knowledge to your benefit when searching.
B) In most cases the script is named in such a way that it describes what it does. Thus making it relative easy to search for more info or to find a specific script.
C) What djdannyp actually meant was once you found the script and its name in the official DB, you can search for its name in the forums to get more information about it.
And also, you can use contents, name, description, author, etc as keywords...
There are more than plenty enough variables and methods to search for.
Of course, you must be able to do a proper decent and logic search.
And not doing it the lazy way by creating a new thread each time asking for something (which you already asked before in most cases btw). Or asking info about some subject or threads in which you actually already posted a message before...
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Originally posted by riahc4
Well if you rather say a subsection for released scripts rather than completed scripts then fine by me...
A subsection for release scripts would be nice as it is alot more organized this way.
No, in practice, it will not be more organized, not on a big forum like this. And how it is called is completely, but also realy completely, beside the point! The point is that sooner or later such a subforum (whatever it is called) will be nothing more than a 'copy' of the existing scripting forum, including double threads about the same script, crosspostings, repetative questions, etc etc.
On a (smaller) forum with very strict rules and with something not like scripts (which, by nature, are updated all the time and on which people constant need to ask questions about, etc) it might work, but not here, not with something so opensource/public as scripting code.
No forum (that I know of at least) which is about opensource scripting has a category 'finished'/'released'/'whatever you wanna call it', because that doesn't work in practice. At the most they have some subforums for different categories of scripts though, exactly like the official DB already has.
Your searching problems will _not_ be solved by creating a new subforum. On the contrary, you will probably be less successfull in finding the proper stuff!! Because you will probably search only that subforum, instead of all the other subforums and thus you _will_ miss vital and important threads which were made in other subforums (but with the same or related subjects).
Instead, learn to perfom a decent search with the proper keywords, learn to do multiple searches, etc... and don't be lazy and/or give up easly. The more you search the better you'll be and the quicker you'll find what you're looking for.
Searching in a subforum is only productive if you actually know for sure that some info is posted in that, and only in that, subforum. Otherwise you should never ever limit your searches to subforums (on this forum at least).
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