On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 04:27:03PM -0700, Walter Underwood wrote: > “Why do you care?” might not be the best way to say it, but it is > essential to understand the difference between selection (filtering) > and ranking. > > As Solr params: > > * q is ranking and filtering > * fq is filtering only > * bq is ranking only
Thanks, that is a very useful and concise synopsis. > When deleting documents, ordering does not matter, which is why we ask > why you care about the ordering. > > If the response is familiar to you, imagine how the questions sound to > people who have been working in search for twenty years. But even when > we are snippy, we still try to help. > > Many, many times, the question is wrong. The most common difficulty on > this list is an “XY problem”, where the poster has problem X and has > assumed solution Y, which is not the right solution. But they ask > about Y. So we will tell people that their approach is wrong, because > that is the most helpful thing we can do. Alex's response didn't seem snippy to me at all, and I agree wholeheartedly about the wrong-question problem -- in my case, not only was I asking the wrong question, but I shouldn't even have had to ask the (right) question at all! Thanks again, everyone. Paul. -- Paul Hoffman <p...@flo.org> Systems Librarian Fenway Libraries Online c/o Wentworth Institute of Technology 550 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115 (617) 442-2384 (FLO main number)
