Still_Waters - 2:53 am on Jun 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

Given the problems, I can certainly understand why you wish to try premoderation. I have no problems with that, especially if it increases the overall quality.

Also, in order to reduce the number of redundant posts, I'd like to suggest that you improve your search function. I'm accustomed to the vBulletin search feature, for example, which seems to provide more meaningful results. For example, vBulletin searches allow you to sort the results by a number of criteria (such as date of last post, so you can see most recent first). Also, it provides the original thread date and the username of the original post (which allows to you gauge the thread age and to estimate the equality of the post -- we all have our favorite authors). Finally, it allows you to list the results by thread title, or by individual posts, in which the search terms appear (which allows you to zero in on a particularly relevant post, very quickly).

I, for one, have used WW's search function, before posting my own questions. But, the results were usually unsatisfying. So, this is just a suggestion.

Thanks for the staff's hard work in keeping WW a great treasure for webmasters. :)