Ending the "DIS SURCH BAHR RITE" nonsense

[SuperLlama]

The meme growth of "this is the search bar" has lasted long enough. Everybody is annoyed and it was never funny in the first place.

Several problems with the current configuration could be partially to blame for the continued reign of chaos:

1) For some reason, the "Enter Chat Here" text has never appeared in my text box and does not even exist in my page source in any shape or form. It's the same for Firefox and IE, I'm running Windows 7 Pro x86, and my net is AT&T DSL.

2) The "This is NOT the Search Bar" text is center-justified. Whoever did that needs a better monitor, because on larger resolutions the text is not even close to the not-search-bar. If it were left-justified, that would make it much more obvious.

3) Most websites actually have search bars there. I hate to give the nublets what they want, but actually putting a search bar above the current chatbox could help a little, though the people who do it on purpose would keep on spamming.

4) Once it's become painfully obvious that it is not the search bar, ban people who still think that it is - because they obviously did it on purpose.

[Azrael]

The shoutbar never contains useful content. So what if people think it's the search bar?

[Ehmmett]

It had useful content once, a warning about glennis virus.

[Bull]

Nobody cares about the spambox.

[Solece]

Most people legit think that it's a searchbar, not purposely.

[N00bDud3]

This is all I ever see in there

Why won't this search bar search?
なぜですは、この検索バーに検索できますか。
Why is this search bar you can find.
なぜあなたは見つけることができる、この検索バーです。
Why you can find, this search bar.
なぜあなたは、この検索バーを見つけることができます。
Why you can find the search bar.
なぜあなたは、検索バーを見つけることができます。
Why you can find the search bar.

And when it is actually useful information, it gets knocked out a few minutes later by more idiots.

[Tolyzor]

don't censor the spam box dood

[Schilcote]

If it doesn't matter, then why do I have an infraction? Serious, I'm not complaining, I'm pointing out a flaw in your logic. [rant]and I wasn't actually participating in the meme I was making fun of someone else who was[/rant]

But yeah, perhaps we should put a search bar there. Like I said one other time, it'd be easier to direct people to it.

And thirdly, don't we already have a thread about this?

[Ehmmett]

Edit:
Oops, sorry. I thought this was the search bar.

[SuperLlama]

Wow, if I had known all the admins were bozos who spammed as much as the spammers, I wouldn't have started the topic. Is anyone going to actually consider the original post's suggestions, or is this going to become a flame fight?