Don't make the same mistake I made when I started a new book-share thread!

Brular

Dan Brown's latest novel - Origin - was released today - October 3, 2017. ... I felt fortunate to find a download for it on the Net - and before I did the work of assembling a thread, I searched the forum with these terms: "dan brown origin" - and received no results. Then I put the thread together and published it as "Origin - the latest novel from Dan Brown."

About 20 minutes later, I had the thought to search just using the only author's name and found, to my horror, that this book had been shared as an additional post to this thread just a few hours before mine:

https://www.craxme.com/forum.php ... ghlight=dan%2Bbrown

I still had my published thread open in the browser, so I went to the bottom of it to the edit button and clicked on it - and found that, to my increasing horror, that my thread no longer existed! ... Right after that, I checked my private messages and found a note from Pedro_P, the section's Super-Moderator, letting me know that my thread had been removed because the book had been already shared in the above thread. (I tried to leave a private message to him to apologize, but found out that it wouldn't be sent because I'm not a friend of his. ... I am sorry about my mistake, sir, and I will not repeat this particular one again!

It's best, I think, that when searching for a particular book, to search for the author's name only. ... The regular and advanced search functions would not help anyone find the book using these terms: "dan brown origin."

Beyond suggesting to forum members not to assume that doing a search for the author and book title may not, as in this case, show that the book share has already been made within the forum, I respectfully suggest to forum administrators to consider allowing an addition to the advanced search functions that would enable search within the text of existing threads so that additions of more recent books can be shown as search results.

Thanks for your attention. And thanks to the CraxMe Forum for having me here!

Rhett_Bassard

I have expressed similar search concerns to CMF Admin @rameshkiran114 (previously VERY helpful).

Did you try @Pedro_P suggestion found at https://www.craxme.com/forum.php ... =62&fromuid=153
i.e. browsing outside of CMF and doing a Google search with the keyword addendum "site:craxme.com"?

I did try Pedro's technique, looking to see if "Turbo Twenty-Three" already existed on CMF. Google returned nothing, implying safe to post, but lo-and-behold, there's that same title buried within a week old NY Times Bestseller thread, https://www.craxme.com/forum.php ... 830&fromuid=153

Ironically, that same NY Times Bestseller thread contains a duplicate posting of "Enemy of the State" that had been uploaded 3 weeks earlier on 10 SEP (after I posted it on UCF, 09 JUL).

We're seeing CMF improvements every day...fixing the search function can't be far behind

Pedro_P

Do not regret, You have not committed a serious fault, unlike the deliberate duplications that are manifestly purposely.
Even another user also published the same book before you, and the removal of such a book was necessary since the user @penprak was the one who first published it.
These situations of duplicity by mistake are normal and deserve no penalty other than a simple note of observation.
Certainly there are limitations in suggested search methods, nothing is foolproof. The method of searching through Google is not useful for searches of recent publications, but it is useful for searching the inside of the threads after a while that Google indexes the results. The search method of CraxMe Forum unfortunately also has its own limitations.
In general, duplication cases are reported by the same users and after a review and verification of the report, proceed to execute the measures that are required to resolve the case of duplicity.
You can send me a friend request and no problem, I will accept it as I do with the vast majority of users. Encourage and continue to share more books, that all your contributions to the Forum are welcome and appreciated.

Greetings.

linus

Ironically enough, I did the same thing with the same book !!!

Refined search with google is the answer right now I guess. And hopefully the forum's search will be updated.

vinodnamdeo

yes, i also agree that we should Refined search as per  google search, also some search procedure has to be modified by forum administrator.

lolaveri

Thanks for the tip!

jagang

thanks for the tip