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I found a new O'Keefe article I wanted to post. I did a title search of /s/All for O'Keefe, the newest entry found was 22 days ago,

So, not finding a duplicate, I posted my post - https://poal.co/s/BasedMedia/705833.

Later I review the /s/New page and discover this O'Keefe news item (from a different source) was previously posted 3 hours ago - https://poal.co/s/StateofCorruption/705807

... yet the search function missed it. Both titles contain O'Keefe but still the search tool overlooks them.

Any ideas? I figured the new page covered all subverses. Maybe the ' is screwing the search? The post from 22 days ago also has a ' and search found it, so that doesn't seem to be the case.

I found a new O'Keefe article I wanted to post. I did a title search of /s/All for O'Keefe, the newest entry found was 22 days ago, So, not finding a duplicate, I posted my post - https://poal.co/s/BasedMedia/705833. Later I review the /s/New page and discover this O'Keefe news item (from a different source) was previously posted 3 hours ago - https://poal.co/s/StateofCorruption/705807 ... yet the search function missed it. Both titles contain O'Keefe but still the search tool overlooks them. Any ideas? I figured the new page covered all subverses. Maybe the ' is screwing the search? The post from 22 days ago also has a ' and search found it, so that doesn't seem to be the case.

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"____" probably was the last user I ever blocked (when he first popped up on POAL with the user name "___") and was sliding the front page of /s/new with 100 posts a day. About the same time I suggested AskPOAL about a 50 post/day limit and you said didn't agree with restricting posts.

I did eventually unblock "____" within a few weeks after that, haven't touched block/unblock since and my user profile says I have 0 users blocked, 0 subs blocked.

Not sure if this info helps to further isolate the problem.

[–] • 1 pt (edited )

Alright, I now know for sure what's the issue is here.

As of right now, there's a total of related 292 posts that contain that name in their title.

The problem is these posts are divided into two groups:

1. single quote '

2. apostrophe ’

They are two entirely different punctuation symbols. Single quotes are limited to one real function in written U.S. English, which is to indicate a quotation within a quotation. Apostrophes, on the other hand, are used to denote possessive form and to indicate omission.

That's why the search is only showing one group or another in the results depending on which special character you've been using in your search request.

I'll think about a solution later. Maybe searching for both in a search?

[–] • 0 pt

Great find!

I use a kbd application on the kindle. I used the standard character set unless the standard apostrophe is actually in the kbd enhanced character set... I used ' from my standard character set vs ` from the enhanced character set.

Just spent a half hour plus subscribing to 21 pages of the subs list so far. Still not done. A [Select All] option would be great, but when I'm done I don't plan on changing them. I wanted to subscribe to all of them in case there is anything there that can screw me up.

[–] • 1 pt

You don't have to subscribe to all of them, because if you do, your home page will end up being identical to all.

It's a waste of time and resources.

[–] • 1 pt

It's actually an encoding issue.

For some reason some browsers are converting the single quote character (aka apostrophe) to %27 and some don't, which gives different results in a query.

I'll fix that in a bit and ping you when it's done.