What Happened to the SP Forum?

[sillyrabbit]

I was slowly trolling through every post on my way to restoring my SP-10_Mk2,

has it gone somewhere else, anyone know how to navigate to it?

_s

[KentT]

Second it's revival as this line is an entirely different breed of cat.

[sillyrabbit]

bump, anyone know how to access the original SP Forum, still want to do a bunch of reading before taking off on my restore?

tx_sr

[Alec124c41]

Type Technics SP into the search bar.

Cheers,
Alec

[phonomac]

When I type Technics SP into the search bar, the first answer is Alec's post above. The second one is "What cartridge is on your Technics SL12xxMk2".

Thirded for the revival of the SP forum. Search is useless.

regards

Angus

[JaS]

I was slowly trolling through every post on my way to restoring my SP-10_Mk2

It must have been very slowly - the SP and SL-1200 sub-forums were permanently merged with the main Technics forum several months ago

I'm afraid that due to the amount of cross posting between the Turntable forum, Technics forum and SP forum, the Technics subforums won't be returning. All SP10 posts can be found in the Technics forum.

Regards,
JaS

[JaS]

When I type Technics SP into the search bar, the first answer is Alec's post above. The second one is "What cartridge is on your Technics SL12xxMk2".s

The search function works fine, you just need to be more specific about what you are searching for. For example, entering Technics SP on the forum search page will return all posts containing the words Technics and SP, whereas entering "Technics SP" (with quotation marks) will only return posts containing the exact phrase Technics SP. You can also use the custom search box at the top of every page to search the entire site/forum.

Regards,
JaS

[phonomac]

Hello Jas,
Thank you for the instructions on how to use search properly. Can you tell me please where I would have found this information without you having to tell me?

regards

Angus

[JaS]

Thank you for the instructions on how to use search properly. Can you tell me please where I would have found this information without you having to tell me?

I wasn't aware it was something that needed explaining before now - it's just how search engines work Try it with Google, Yahoo etc. Using quotation marks to fine tune search results is one of the first things I learnt when I got online many moons ago, although Google seems to have this nailed now and seems to know what you are searching for without much prodding.

The main difference between search engines is how stuff is sorted. Web search engines appear to sort by relevancy to keywords, possibly loaded to take into account the exact phrase (amongst a million other variables like date, popularity etc), but I'm no expert. Forum search engines normally sort by date or relevancy to keywords so it's important to be specific about what you are searching for and how you want it displaying (hence all of the tick boxes)

You will get different results using the custom search box at the top of the page as it's powered by Google search. It works differently to the forum search as (a) it uses Google's index of the whole site rather than accessing the site database and (b) it restricts the number of results to 10 pages. I believe it also weighs results on keyword relevancy too, but as I say, I'm no expert on search algorithms.

Regards,
JaS

[phonomac]

Hello Jas,
Thank you for that .

I too have used the internet for more years than I care to remember, and I have never come across using quotes for an exact search (weird or what?). I have used AND, OR, + and various others.

While we are on the subject of using the site, where can I find out what the symbols mean beside each thread in the index of a forum?

regards

Angus

[JaS]

I too have used the internet for more years than I care to remember, and I have never come across using quotes for an exact search (weird or what?). I have used AND, OR, + and various others.

I don't ever remember using logical operators in search terms, but since the rise of Google I probably haven't needed to

While we are on the subject of using the site, where can I find out what the symbols mean beside each thread in the index of a forum?

They are just the standard icons for sticky posts, announcements etc. Important icons have tooltips that pop up when you hover a mouse over them, but other than the fact that they light up to indicate new posts they have no useful function. There's no key to the forum icons as I haven't got around to changing the default icons and/or documenting them, and it's very low priority on my to-do list.

Regards,
JaS

PS Questions/request regarding the site/forum should really be made in the support section. I can't read every thread and only came across this one by chance.