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 Author: BlackPanther04 View Messages Posted By BlackPanther04
 Posted: Oct 26, 2023 10:03
 Subject: Option to exclude from Search
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BlackPanther04 (93)

Location:  Germany, Baden-Württemberg
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I often search for parts for minifigures. Something I think would be extremely
beneficial and make searching a lot simpler and quicker would be the option to
exclude something.

For example, if I'm looking for a female head, but I know I don't want
lipstick, it would be cool if I could exclude all search results that include
"lipstick". Or when I'm looking for a male part (which often aren't
marked as such), being able to exclude "female" would reduce the amount
of search results I have to scroll past.
 Author: jennnifer View Messages Posted By jennnifer
 Posted: Oct 26, 2023 10:12
 Subject: Re: Option to exclude from Search
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In Suggestions, BlackPanther04 writes:
  I often search for parts for minifigures. Something I think would be extremely
beneficial and make searching a lot simpler and quicker would be the option to
exclude something.

For example, if I'm looking for a female head, but I know I don't want
lipstick, it would be cool if I could exclude all search results that include
"lipstick". Or when I'm looking for a male part (which often aren't
marked as such), being able to exclude "female" would reduce the amount
of search results I have to scroll past.

add a - hyphen before the search term.

https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=29
 Author: SylvainLS View Messages Posted By SylvainLS
 Posted: Oct 26, 2023 10:15
 Subject: Re: Option to exclude from Search
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SylvainLS (52)

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In Suggestions, jennnifer writes:
  In Suggestions, BlackPanther04 writes:
  I often search for parts for minifigures. Something I think would be extremely
beneficial and make searching a lot simpler and quicker would be the option to
exclude something.

For example, if I'm looking for a female head, but I know I don't want
lipstick, it would be cool if I could exclude all search results that include
"lipstick". Or when I'm looking for a male part (which often aren't
marked as such), being able to exclude "female" would reduce the amount
of search results I have to scroll past.

add a - hyphen before the search term.

https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=29

And note that “lipstick” is not a good example as there’s only two heads with
this term in their descriptions and only one also has “female”
 Author: BlackPanther04 View Messages Posted By BlackPanther04
 Posted: Dec 16, 2024 18:05
 Subject: Re: Option to exclude from Search
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BlackPanther04 (93)

Location:  Germany, Baden-Württemberg
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In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:
  In Suggestions, jennnifer writes:
  In Suggestions, BlackPanther04 writes:
  I often search for parts for minifigures. Something I think would be extremely
beneficial and make searching a lot simpler and quicker would be the option to
exclude something.

For example, if I'm looking for a female head, but I know I don't want
lipstick, it would be cool if I could exclude all search results that include
"lipstick". Or when I'm looking for a male part (which often aren't
marked as such), being able to exclude "female" would reduce the amount
of search results I have to scroll past.

add a - hyphen before the search term.

https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=29

And note that “lipstick” is not a good example as there’s only two heads with
this term in their descriptions and only one also has “female”

Good point XD Guess I didn't think that through... I suppose "beard"
or "glasses" would have been a better example ^^
 Author: BlackPanther04 View Messages Posted By BlackPanther04
 Posted: Dec 16, 2024 18:04
 Subject: Re: Option to exclude from Search
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BlackPanther04 (93)

Location:  Germany, Baden-Württemberg
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In Suggestions, jennnifer writes:
  In Suggestions, BlackPanther04 writes:
  I often search for parts for minifigures. Something I think would be extremely
beneficial and make searching a lot simpler and quicker would be the option to
exclude something.

For example, if I'm looking for a female head, but I know I don't want
lipstick, it would be cool if I could exclude all search results that include
"lipstick". Or when I'm looking for a male part (which often aren't
marked as such), being able to exclude "female" would reduce the amount
of search results I have to scroll past.

add a - hyphen before the search term.

https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=29

Thank you so much!!! This helps a lot! I did not realize :/
I thought I looked for an option, but clearly not thorough enough...

Also, sorry for the late reply... I didn't see that anyone had responded
:/
 Author: yorbrick View Messages Posted By yorbrick
 Posted: Oct 26, 2023 11:30
 Subject: Re: Option to exclude from Search
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In Suggestions, BlackPanther04 writes:
  I often search for parts for minifigures. Something I think would be extremely
beneficial and make searching a lot simpler and quicker would be the option to
exclude something.

For example, if I'm looking for a female head, but I know I don't want
lipstick, it would be cool if I could exclude all search results that include
"lipstick". Or when I'm looking for a male part (which often aren't
marked as such), being able to exclude "female" would reduce the amount
of search results I have to scroll past.

There is also this help page (found if you search for 'exclude' in help)
with some other tips for searching.

https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=29&q=Exclude
 Author: BlackPanther04 View Messages Posted By BlackPanther04
 Posted: Dec 16, 2024 18:08
 Subject: Re: Option to exclude from Search
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BlackPanther04 (93)

Location:  Germany, Baden-Württemberg
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In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
  In Suggestions, BlackPanther04 writes:
  I often search for parts for minifigures. Something I think would be extremely
beneficial and make searching a lot simpler and quicker would be the option to
exclude something.

For example, if I'm looking for a female head, but I know I don't want
lipstick, it would be cool if I could exclude all search results that include
"lipstick". Or when I'm looking for a male part (which often aren't
marked as such), being able to exclude "female" would reduce the amount
of search results I have to scroll past.

There is also this help page (found if you search for 'exclude' in help)
with some other tips for searching.

https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=29&q=Exclude

I did not find that! Thank you so much Someone else mentioned the hyphen,
but the other things on there are important as well! This is a big help for me
- thanks