You know, it's something I've noticed at the bottom of every thread. "Similar topics". While it may become useful, most of the time it seems to be digging out posts from the Funny Farm forum, not the same forum (where I'd expect similar topics to be). Most of the time they're completely irrelevant.

Here are some example topics (although I get the odd feeling you can look anywhere):
http://www.msfn.org/board/How-To-Create-A-...ke-t118295.html

(I'm not about to do the above cleanup/formatting for each one... but I did this one just to preserve it in case this gets fixed)
http://www.msfn.org/board/My-son-is-pressi...XP-t118407.html (3 funny farm "similar topics")
http://www.msfn.org/board/Windows-Installe...rs-t118286.html (3 funny farm ones again)
http://www.msfn.org/board/Can-Not-create-n...er-t118389.html (the only one IS a funny farm post)

And I just practically went straight down the WinXP forum topic listing there.

Bit of a problem, euh?

What is funny is that I also noticed the same thing, and was thinking of writing this... but I was too lazy.

And even funnier (now) is the bottom of THIS thread.

GL

I'm guessing that this is because the logic used to determine "similar topics" returns results with at least some weight given to the "first" results as opposed to the "best" results. Since the Funny Farm is one of our first forums it will tend to rise to the top of that heap. Perhaps we can tweak how the results are calculated.

Well, IMO, an easy, quick, and quite functional solution would be to restrict "similar topic" location to the forum this topic is located in... besides, similar topics would be in the forum this topic is posted in, right?

BUMP

For the fact that this hasn't even been replied to (by an/the admin), let alone addressed...

There was a glitch in system. Anyway, fixed. Thanks for pointing this out.

Sorry for delay.

Excellent! I looked down and noticed that there weren't a hundred "funny farm" topics and checked back here. Fixed now!