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Feedback ยท Trait Preference Searching (implemented)

Right now we can search for a person's traits, or their interests, but not the traits they themselves are interested in. It would be very useful to, say, find profiles of characters who like your character's species and gender.

Since some trait categories may be ambiguous with interest categories, I propose the keyword "that like" be used in place of "into" for traits.

Proposed syntax:

find profiles that like TraitCategory
find profiles that like TraitCategory1, TraitCategory2, and TraitCategory3
find profiles that like TraitName1 of TraitCategory1 and TraitName1 of TraitCategory2

So, for example,

"find profiles into adventure that like gryphons and gender of male" 

would give you profiles with "Adventure" in their interests, "Gryphon" as a species preference, and "Male" as a gender preference... perfect for finding adventuring partners for your male gryphon character.

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created: 27 December 14 at 12:09 PM (build: 12/27/2014 6:13 AM alpha)

closed: 05 January 15 at 08:43 PM (build: 1/5/2015 8:36 PM alpha)

Pascal

actually, shouldn't your example have been find profiles into adventure that like species of gryphon and gender of male?

Wrecked Avent Site Administrator

I was going to use something with like in it for searching preferences. that like or who like could be aliases.

Pascal, both forms would be legal, but could potentially be ambiguous without the expanded form. Example: find profiles into adventure that like average

There's a few categories of 'average' so it would just pick the first 'average' it found, which may not be what you want. Whereas find profiles into adventure that like breast size of average

is perfectly unambiguous.

Wrecked Avent Site Administrator

Also, to the suggester, I don't think I approve of your and syntax. I'd suggest that an and or or clause be regarded as continuing the previous clause, such that:

find profiles who like dragons and humans

profiles who have a positive preference for both dragons and humans

find profiles who like dragons or humans

profiles who have a positive preference for either a dragon or a human

find profiles who like dragons or humans with gender of male

profiles who are male and have a positive preference for either a dragon or a human,

find male profiles who like dragons or humans

ditto

Pascal

Are you going to design a bit of an UI to aid with that searching at some point? "Advanced Search" page that will allow people to do searches without actually having to learn that search syntax?

Wrecked Avent Site Administrator

I've had ideas for presenting some kind of UI to learn it, but not to avoid it all together.

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