Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-998602-20190324014020

Firstly, I want to apologise if someone has already asked/suggested this. My idea is to add a search bar into the discussions, similar to what was in the Forums before their removal from most of the Wikis.

My reasons for this is because I've noticed, on some of the Wikis I use, that the discussion section either descends into people constantly making new posts solely involving memes or involves people asking the same questions/making the same posts multiple times - which could be avoided in the forums thanks to the search option as it would let you search for if someone had already created the same post.

I've seen others complain about the constant meme threads (I don't mind memes, but I'd rather they had one thread to add to rather than multiple threads) such as this one from the Harry Potter Wiki and an example of the "repeat posts" from my own experience is the Godzilla Wiki, which has seen multiple people in the discussion section asking the question of who would win in a fight between Legendary Godzilla and Shin Godzilla - which has been going on for so long that I even recall seeing a post in the discussion section asking for the "Legendary vs. Shin" posts to stop because they'd been repeated for heaven knows how long.

My point is, a search option could be extremely beneficial in stopping the number of repeat threads and constant meme posts. Granted, there will always be people who will ignore it and make repeat posts/meme posts but a search option may be successful in significantly reducing their frequency.

I hope my post here is of some benefit.

Thank you for your time, and I wish you a pleasant day. :) 