@DJ
I love the new AI for the "needs assistance" threads. I think that is better than the troubleshooting/data gathering script idea we were discussing a few months ago. Really shows before we answer how much a user has tried to help themselves first.
However, the threads are no longer showing the needs assistance flag when viewing the list of recent forum posts. Was that intentional, or did you miss something?
The text in the header info also says "receive $10 of EZ-Credit". Was that supposed to be $3, or did you build in a sliding scale to the AI based on how much a user tried to help themselves first to gauge the expected difficulty in answering the question (like if Richard R or Rich ask a question, can I earn $50 If I answer it 
)?
Alan
I've been working on a unified search - probably by the end of this week. I don't think it'll solve much though, although it is another step forward.
The search is separated between forum and tutorials at the moment. I've been combining it with the new AI search i've been developing due to all the lazy questions lately
I've also worked on the forum search a bit. It's using the same engine i created for the request assistance ai robot. you can do things like this now with quotes:
And use binary expressions like +"find find" -"exclude this"
Excellent. That will make it much more useful without needing to do a google site: search.
Alan