Xenforo does rather like to complicate things by hating on short/common words, which is frequently frustrating when I'm not sure which synonym to search for.It's also complicated by the fact that xenforo hates to search for words with 4 or fewer letters, and Steinman had a tendency to scrub all his posts [deleted] periodically.
The main reason I'm good at finding stuff is because my memory is unusually good enough to serve up some unique word from the post I'm searching for that I can feed Xenforo. But when I can't remember anything unique to the post, then it just becomes a slog through page after page of search results.I'm going to wear this one single time my forum-Google-fu managed to beat yours as a badge of honor for the coming twenty years :-p