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How exactly do the answers marked as "helpful" on this site actually help when searching the forums? Is there a way to restrict your search to those answers only? Do they factor more heavily into the relevance weighting? Or is it simply that, once you locate the thread, they are easier to spot visually because of the dashed red border?

I usually have better luck using Google to search this site, so I'm wondering if I'm missing something about C5's own search facility.

Thanks,

-Steve
Shotster
 
Mnkras replied on at Permalink Reply
Mnkras
in the documentation at the bottom there are forum posts, i believe when you hit helpful thread and some of its tags match what are defined in the block, it shows the threads,

or do you mean the marked as answer thing, i believe thats just so that ppl don't go scrolling through threads and say they couldn't find an answer even if there is one
Shotster replied on at Permalink Reply
Shotster
Yeah, I mean the marked answer thing. I just thought there might be more to it than the red border.

Thanks,

-Steve
frz replied on at Permalink Best Answer Reply
frz
the marked as answer and mark this thread as helpful stuff was added with the last rev of concrete5.org we built to start gathering some more meaningful data on these threads.

We have not incorporated them into search, or used them to build any top-10 type FAQ lists yet, but that is the eventual intention.

The pages in docs do have an "ask a question" functionality that actually posts the question in a relevant forum so people will find it, and then links to them from the doc pages with tags. We just did that because the guestbooks in the old docs were a nightmare to manage.
Shotster replied on at Permalink Reply
Shotster
Thanks Franz,

I thought there might be more to it than meets the eye.

-Steve