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Dear Admins, Do You Really Want to Get Rid of Me?? 馃槙

In order to obtain a more or less complete chronological feed, I had bookmarked
"https://similarworlds.com/search-posts?q=[b]and[/b]"
which gave me every post that contains the word "and" (= 99% of all posts). I could live with that as a reasonable work-around.
Of course it wasn't perfect (there are some posts which do not contain the character string "and", of course) so I had also bookmarked:
"https://similarworlds.com/search-posts?q=[b]the[/b]"
and
"https://similarworlds.com/search-posts?q=[b]not[/b]"
It was an awkward work-around but sort of ok for me.

Those searches are no longer possible. All I get is
"Please add more relevant words to your search query."

"and" does not work anymore, but, lo and behold, "[u]end[/u]" works! ==> it's not that three-character strings are excluded from the search, but [u]specifically[/u] "and" and "the" and "not" (and maybe some more). ==> The admins are actively, [u]intentionally[/u] preventing us from using search engine tools as a work-around to get a complete feed.

As a result, I do no longer have a working feed. This is [u]catastrophic[/u]. You exclude me from enjoying other members' posts, and you exclude others from reading mine. This post will most likely be invisible to most users.

All I'm getting now is a tiny subset of posts which I don't have control over.

I don't get it. I do not understand your intentions. Why are you doing this? Why did you kill the only reasonable access to an (almost) unfiltered feed? What's the objective behind your decisions? What are you aiming at? Are you trying to attract a younger uneducated crowd perhaps? Are you trying to repel "power users"?

Really, I'm totally frustrated. Somebody is doing a bad job. 馃槖
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'And' is working ?
helenS36-40, F
@Jabulani Oh, you are right! Capitalized "And" is still working! Thank you!!! 馃尫馃尫馃尫
... but I'm afraid it won't work for long - they just forgot to put it on their blacklist.

[b][EDIT: it's gone now.][/b]
helenS36-40, F
@Jabulani "And" does no longer work for me.
Oster1M
@helenS I'm glad you are happy. No problem. I know you really care about this site. That's all that matters. 馃尫
helenS36-40, F
@Oster1 It stopped working 2 minutes ago.
Oster1M
@helenS NO WAY!

Did it really? Just like that! 馃槺

Seriously?

It was working just minutes ago? 馃
helenS36-40, F
@Oster1 Yes, it did for me. I tried only once though.
Oster1M
@helenS Just so I understand. Is 'And' still working , or not?
@Oster1 not for me either! @helenS
helenS36-40, F
@Oster1 No it isn't.
I was surprised it did work, because I thought the search engine is not case-sensitive.
helenS36-40, F
@Jabulani But it [u]did[/u] work for you some minutes ago??
@helenS yes even tried my own search posts
helenS36-40, F
@Jabulani So they added it to their blacklist intentionally, after reading your reply to my post.
@helenS oh! This is from the algorithms correcting themselves.. I searched a member once with gmail as username one click it was gone entirely
helenS36-40, F
@Jabulani I'm fed up with all this.
@helenS 'Kid' continues
helenS36-40, F
@Jabulani Yes but "Kid" won't lead to a good chronological feed. If it did, it would be on the black list.
Pretty sad that they actively destroy work-arounds for faithful users. 馃槩
@helenS 'image'. I am sorry how difficult this is now
helenS36-40, F
@Jabulani I'm extremely frustrated. They [u]tracked[/u] my post, they saw that "And" still works, and they put it on their blacklist immediately.
Without saying anything.
I would not accept anything like that in real life.