# Make search options optional

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-search-options-optional/15249>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2 Maggio 2014, 2:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-search-options-optional/15249 "2014-05-02T14:43:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![TechnoBear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/technobear/32/40546_2.png) [@TechnoBear](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TechnoBear)\
**Post date:** [3 Maggio 2014, 12:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-search-options-optional/15249/4 "2014-05-03T12:08:56Z")

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I’m not thinking necessarily about moderating or about “power user stuff”.

I may be viewing one forum when something I read triggers a memory of another post I want to look at again. If I happen to know that post is in the same forum, then having the search results favour that forum is OK. If I happen to know the post is _not_ in that forum, then to stop the results showing a bias, I need to leave that forum (and the thread I’m reading) to get an unweighted search.

Disruptive and not very convenient.

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