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It's a semantics issue.
Am I correct in thinking that when you see the word "Forum" you mean "this site"?
"Forum", for us, means specifically a discussion forums. Comments are another thing entirely: they are comments attached to something (eg a comment attached to a question or answer in Quick Answers, but they were also attached to things like Tasks and other objects). So "Search comments" doesn't make sense in terms of a discussion forum because they discussion forum contains discussions, not just comments (An initial post may be commentary, but I wouldn't in general class it as a comment since it could be a news item, question, joke, rant or monologue).
"Search Threads" is possible, but technically a thread is a collection of messages in a single conversation (give or take some bifurcation).
How about: "Search this Discussion Board"?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Hi Chris, yes, I am being semantic  To me, the word "forum" means an entire section of CP. The name of that Search Box, imho, should reflect what it does: it searches the comments on an article. Clearly it's a specialized search function.
You don't need to search the article from that CP search box because, after all, you have your browser's search facility at hand to search the current web page.
To me, "Search Comments," with the implicit meaning "on this article" is crystal clear.
imho the current search box name is confusing, and I bet a lot of other people, like me, do not realize what it does ... which is quite useful.
cheers, Bill
“I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: They amount to 14.” Abd-Ar Rahman III, Caliph of Cordoba, circa 950CE.
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So for articles, "Search Comments" is actually a good prompt (even though, technically, you're searching Messages, not Comments - two completely different objects in our codebase). I'd like to have consistent wording though.
Would "Search within Messages" be OK?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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How about "Search for stuff herein".
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Just playing devil's advocate for a moment:
- The link to the discussion forum in the left-hand bar reads "Comments", and uses the location hash "#_comments";
- The heading at the top of the discussion forum reads "Comments and Discussions";
- The big red button reads "Add a Comment or Question";
So I don't think "Search Comments" would be particularly inconsistent.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: The link to the discussion forum in the left-hand bar reads "Comments",
For articles, yes; and in this case it does fit under the "comments are things attached to an object". So "Search Comments" works well for articles but not discussion forums (and I would prefer consistent terminology in the search box).
This is why programming is so much fun. Especially when you do it in front of other very, very smart programmers. 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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How about just "Search"? The box is close enough to the list of messages for the context to be implied, Shirley?
Chris Maunder wrote: very, very smart programmers
Where have they been hiding then? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Hi Richard,
While I would never claim that my perceptions, and assumptions, are those of any substantial number of other CP Members, I do think that seeing a search facility at the bottom of the article page with the same title as the search facility at the top of the page does lend itself to an inference that the bottom search facility has the same behavior as the top facility, and that it is placed there to save the user navigating up to the top of the article web-page to use said search facility.
cheers, Bill
“I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: They amount to 14.” Abd-Ar Rahman III, Caliph of Cordoba, circa 950CE.
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Hi Chris,
"Search within Messages" would be an improvement, for me, but I think it's still not really on-target.
imho, one can consider all CP Articles, and their Comments, in theory, as being "threads" in an "implicit meta-forum" that just happens not to have an explicit name, like other Forums. In practice ? ... well my opinion is that CP Members are socialized to perceive Articles as a horse-of-a-unique-breed, and socialized to perceive non-author additions to said Articles as "Comments."
When one posts an Article, one does not see the use of "Post a Message."
When one wants to add their two-cents/pence worth of blatherskite, or quizzalus/querulous, to an Article, what you see is "Add a Comment or Question;" you don't see "Add a Message."
So, I respectfully submit to you, esteemed Mentor, that "Search Comments" makes sense in terms of both CP history, CP Members' acculturation, and context (the specific spatial location of said bottom-most search facility in context, and its special purpose).
cheers, Bill
“I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: They amount to 14.” Abd-Ar Rahman III, Caliph of Cordoba, circa 950CE.
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You've raised a good point: I'm being inconsistent.
I have "New Discussion" in Discussion Forums and "Add a comment or Question" for articles, so why not two sets of wording for articles and Discussion boards?
So how about "Search Comments" in articles and "Search Discussions" in non-articles?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: So how about "Search Comments" in articles and "Search Discussions" in non-articles?
Works for me !
thanks, Bill
“I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: They amount to 14.” Abd-Ar Rahman III, Caliph of Cordoba, circa 950CE.
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Hawk eye 
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I'd suggest to do nothing. The CP society will do the job. The spammer will gets what he deserves (down-votes and spamm reports).
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That results in the same behavior. The member that adds the 3rd report is shown as having updated the post.
I wish they would change this because it brings the post back up to the top, which is really annoying.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Richard Deeming wrote: by Wes
Oh sure... blame Wes. Darn that guy!
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Dear friends,
I had created an account long back and have lost the password to it. The email associated with the account is also deleted. Can you please help me delete that account?
This would help me in reusing the username for the current account.
Thanks and Regards
msiyer
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What is the account name, or what was the associated email name?
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The username was "msiyer". I want to recover that name and use in the current account.
I cannot completely remember associated email. That account would have been idle all these years.
Thanks for replying.
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I agree that this is a bug, but it is not specific to Reference articles. It works that way for articles, blogs and tips as well in the moderation queue.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I've also tested it in my own article and there it works... 
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Was your article in the moderation queue at the time?
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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No, it is an oooooold article from Visual Studio 6 times...
Thanks God they are still not moderating it... 
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