# Please remove "about" from the stop words lists

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/please-remove-about-from-the-stop-words-lists/395455
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** search
**Created:** [February 8, 2026, 2:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/please-remove-about-from-the-stop-words-lists/395455 "2026-02-08T02:23:38Z")
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### Author: ![one1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/one1/32/493591_2.png) [@one1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/one1)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2026, 2:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/please-remove-about-from-the-stop-words-lists/395455/1 "2026-02-08T02:23:38Z")

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Following up on this post: [Are specific terms ignored from searches?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-specific-terms-ignored-from-searches/106208)

I recently ran into this problem when a moderator was trying to find the “About” post in a specific category. They had unpinned the post. Searching for just the word “about” gave no results, but searching for “about the x category” gave the exact post.

This seems like such a simple thing to fix and such an obvious problem. How many Discourse categories must there exist in the world that have an “About” post and they are all unsearchable.

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