[The Smoking Gun]

I'm sorry, I am becoming confused now, and as much as I hate to be bothersome, is it possible to spell this out for me or point me to a thread that would clarify my confusion?

What I have gotten so far from the responses is, I should be able to "continue search, despite the small word. but that is not what my experience was, as quoted above, if what you say, that being your original mod, has been integrated in to vBulletin since v-3.7 then why would I even get a short word rejection of my six word search term? Rather than return an error stating the search term was invalid because the word 'in' was less than three letters, ignoring the rest of the words in the search term?

also when I said above

So you are saying this could have been utilized in my search for the mod author despite my search terms? I just missed seeing that option?

I was asking if there is a need to click on an icon r word to continue this particular search despite the terms containing a word less than three letters, did that not come across as such? My apologies of this was the case.

In any event, all I need to know at this point is how can I search for mod authors whose product I have installed, to mark them as such, with out incurring the forbidden use of small or common words?
Thank you very much for your patience, remember we all do not code in server side languages all the time like some of you guys do, and I know in my own profession, it is not uncommon for well seasoned and experienced people to not realize how little frame of reference for understanding even the simplest aspects of what they are just learning about, because those with experience have forgotten just how alien some new things they are trying to learn, can be for newbies.

This is not meant as a criticism, but rather more of a request to respectfully drop it down a few levels so some of us "little people" can grasp what is being communicated, since talking in lingo tends to make things even more difficult.

I have noticed in many first posts after mods are released, the word "reserved" what does that refer to? This is an example of what i am saying, you all know what those posts or the people posting mean y it, i haven't a clue yet nor can find the purpose through out the hundreds of mods i have browsed through, and I have been using vB for over three years (SM on another board for a few years) now in some capacity or other, but this is my first owned license using it, so this end of it is less familiar to me!

Once again I really do appreciate the time you have put in to both the responses to my post, and the development of the many mods you have released to date, and offered for no more than someone actually buying a license to use the main forum software.

Do not doubt my appreciation for even a second, if my post sounds like I am saying otherwise.

TSG!