Re: Negative boost query (bq) with edismax for lower scores with Solr 8

I didn't see any response so I wanted to check if my observation simply is not relevant for other people or if I missed to provide any required details. Thanks! -Original Message- Date: 05/09/2019 08:28 AM Subject: Negative boost query (bq) with edismax for lower scores with Solr 8 I f

Negative boost query (bq) with edismax for lower scores with Solr 8

I find that the edismax boost query implementation is not quite logical. It does not allow selectively decreasing the relevancy score anymore. E.g. bq=color:red^2 can be added to increase the score of matching documents. But how can I decrease the score for documents with color:red? Before Solr