That probably works in the TOC forum due to very few replies. I posted a reply to one of your posts in a different thread which covered a technique that trial and error (the dynamic duo) found.
I decided to find all of the original story posts for Wrong Clark. The reason mostly was to check techniques against volume because this baby has some volume.
The search string trial and error had the most success with was
+"Wrong Clark (" -"FDK - Wrong Clark" -"Re: Wrong Clark"
+"Wrong Clark (" looks to include any posts with the text in quotes -"FDK - Wrong Clark" looks to exclude FDK posts -"Re: Wrong Clark" looks to exclude replies to original story posts (infrequent but they do happen)
Hopefully this might be of some help to others.
Mike
It appears that the blacklist (and possibly the whitelist, too) require the individual words to be a certain minimum length, even when used in phrases. So, if you where to just say -"RE: FDK: The", it would not exclude FDK posts, because FDK is too short a word to be recognized by the search. It still counts when used with more, longer words within the phrase, though.
Michael
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