U say Tanya, and I say Tonya.
I wasn't suggesting that Damon was a "self poster" or that he was Tanya.
I was merely asking Damon if his "Tanya" was really Tonya, with the reviews, website, etc. It was just an inquiry about who "Tanya" was since there was no reference to Tel # or posted ad.
[QUOTE=Ralphy3456]I agree with the thought that Damon is a self poster. Having said that if Damon is Big Tanya why would she make a post promoting Rea a few weeks ago. I have my own ideas but I don't wish to share them at this time.[/QUOTE]
Wildcard Searches 101: Reply To PWH & HappyDave
PWH & HappyDave (& Others who desire to perform short character searches),
This post is to address your comments about being unable to perform....I mean....being unable to do [perform] limited character searches ON THIS SITE (search engines on different sites work in different ways - hope I do not get dinged by the moderators for this post). Your 2 or 3 character searches errored out and did not allow you to perform a seach. Please do not be insulted if you already know how to use some of the features described below.
The trick is to use asterisks ( * ) as wildcard placeholders for characters you need for the search to be activated. Don't let the description below scare you, because the 2 steps are really easy to perform.
Using PWH's Scenario:
[Note: If you had searched "ge's", well that was 4 characters, and that search would have worked fine for you and provided search results which would have taken you right to posts with GE's within the thread. The apostrophe counts as a character for the search engine purposes.]
IF you searched for only the 2 characters "ge", THEN you would have gotten no search results returned, plus, a search error message denoting that a larger number of characters is needed to perform a search.
IF you entered the 4 characters "ge*s", THEN, the system would return search results where it found posts with the letters 'ge' followed by the letter 's' in a string of characters (e.g., gents, genitals, get slammed). To help weed through the search results to find the posts that you are looking for more quickly, you navigate to the Menu > Edit > Find On This Page option, and, enter what you would like to find. The software will highlight and jump to the locations where your desired string of "find" characters was found.
You could optionally elect to Search for the 4 characters "ge**", and the system will return search results which are a bit larger (you will get all situations where the string of just the 2 characters "ge" were found, but, you can still navigate to the Find On This Page menu option to narrow down what items to look for and jump to what you would like to find). To narrow the "find" jumps, you can make the search "match case" sensitive and enter something like "GE" to weed out strings that have "ge".
HappyDave's scenario would involve the same approach, but, he would be using the characters "LY". The same types of search results and Find On This Page selections apply.
It appears that the Advanced Search option available on this site would not really assist you with the 2 or 3 character searches you are trying to peform, or "match case" sensitive searches which you are trying to execute. Only the use of asterisks will assist.
Happy searching, so, next time you are looking for a "HE", I hope you can search and find one!
Regards,
HD
[QUOTE=Pw Herman]Gents,
While I am a promoter of "RTFF" sometimes our hands are tied.
Case in point:
I am interested in researching/going to Ge's , however the site software does not allow a short search. What I mean is that you need at least 4 letters to seach.
With that said , perhaps someone can pm Ge's location and contact info
Thanks,
pwH[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=HappyDave]I had the same problem with LY[/QUOTE]