Search - Excluding keywords

[Paul_Turpie]

Is it possible to exclude keywords from a search?

I recently wanted to recent search for posts about Microsoft Project on an IT Forum for schools that uses discourse. However, searching for “project” brought back lots of posts about “projectors”.

Most forums would allow me to exclude projectors by searching for “project -projectors”, but Discourse doesn’t seem to allow it.

[cpradio]

Doesn’t exist yet in Discourse, but it is marked #pr-welcome

New search operator "not" for tags only

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 -.