# Is it possible to search for a topic NOT in a category?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-search-for-a-topic-not-in-a-category/61006
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [4월 14, 2017, 7:36오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-search-for-a-topic-not-in-a-category/61006 "2017-04-14T19:36:33Z")
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### Author: ![Drew\_Warwick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/drew_warwick/32/80591_2.png) [@Drew\_Warwick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Drew_Warwick)
#### Post date: [4월 14, 2017, 7:36오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-search-for-a-topic-not-in-a-category/61006/1 "2017-04-14T19:36:33Z")

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Let’s say I want to search for my posts in “feature” – I would search for `@Drew_Warwick #contribute:feature`

Is there a way to do the opposite? To find all of my posts that **aren’t** in feature? e.g. `@Drew_Warwick NOT(#contribute:feature)`

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### Author: ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [4월 14, 2017, 7:50오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-search-for-a-topic-not-in-a-category/61006/2 "2017-04-14T19:50:37Z")

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Not at this time. Currently search does not have the ability to do negative filtering.

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### Author: ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [4월 14, 2017, 7:57오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-search-for-a-topic-not-in-a-category/61006/3 "2017-04-14T19:57:35Z")

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Duplicate of:

> [@New search operator "not" for tags only](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-search-operator-not/52087):
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> Over at Stonehearth we’ve started to have the want to search for topics that don’t have a certain tag on them, or that aren’t by a certain user. To the best of my understanding, this isn’t currently possible. As such, we’d like to request a negation operator for search, like Google support -.

(and likely more)

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [4월 14, 2017, 8:52오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-search-for-a-topic-not-in-a-category/61006/4 "2017-04-14T20:52:55Z")

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