[I am not allowed to put more than two links into the body even though they are local, sorry… I used the search terms below on Search results for '' - Discourse Meta without quotes.] There supposedly is a operator to negate search terms, according to New search operator "not" for tags only but the …

Agreed that topic is quite confusing. Can we clarify here Monday @jomaxro ?

That topic definitely went through numerous changes. Sorry it is so confusing. At this time, the negation operator is -, and it only applies to tags. So you can search for topics that do not have a certain tag, but cannot search for topics without a word, or category, etc. The negation operator is…

Oh, that explains my struggles. Thanks for updating the topic of that thread, this will help other’s who look for this functionality. Would be OK and in any way useful if I added a feature request in Feature - Discourse Meta ?

Is that feature to make a search without a specified word planned? I’m also needing that feature. I have topics that tell the people [DONE] Title A. Now I want to make sure that I can search for all topics of a user without the word DONE in the title of the topic.

How to do a negated search, excluding specific terms?

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jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld) December 9, 2019, 7:32pm 5

Please do! At the time I created the feature request 3 years ago, tag negation was all I needed, so that’s all I requested.

Topic		Replies	Views
New search operator "not" for tags only Feature search	34	7957	July 3, 2018
Excluding/negating words in search Feature	0	564	December 15, 2019
Search - Excluding keywords Support	1	1222	May 25, 2017
Can searching on tags include excluding a tag? Support	2	1117	October 28, 2019
Is it possible to search for a topic NOT in a category? Support	2	1239	April 14, 2017

How to do a negated search, excluding specific terms?

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