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Topic: Searching for Threads started by a poster...
Started by: Silmenume
Started on: 8/26/2005
Board: Site Discussion


On 8/26/2005 at 10:55pm, Silmenume wrote:
Searching for Threads started by a poster...

Is there a way to search for all Threads started by a poster?

The wild card does not seem to work in the "search for" field.

Thanks

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On 8/26/2005 at 11:38pm, TonyLB wrote:
Re: Searching for Threads started by a poster...

On the personal page about that poster there is a "View most recent posts" button (or something close to that phrasing), which will give you (I think) everything they've written in reverse chronological order.  Will that do the trick?

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On 8/28/2005 at 5:51am, Silmenume wrote:
RE: Re: Searching for Threads started by a poster...

Hey Tony,

Thanks for taking the time to reply!  Actually, I had already tried that route, but the basic issue remained.  I would have to slog through every post trying to find the thread I was seeking.  My thought is that it would be easier to scan through 50-60 thread titles started by a given poster than dig through, in some cases, thousands of posts.

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On 8/28/2005 at 11:10pm, Valamir wrote:
RE: Re: Searching for Threads started by a poster...

For whatever reason the new search feature requires something in the "search for" box as well as the author box.

If you put something ridiculously common in that box (such that EVERY post will have one) like a period or just the letter "a"...it will basically pull up all posts by that person within whatever date range specified.

Unfortuneately the "highlight search word" feature is on, so trying to actually read the posts with every period highlighted gets obnoxious.  But once you find the post you're looking for you can always narrow down the search criteria and find it again with fewer highlights.

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On 9/3/2005 at 8:28am, Silmenume wrote:
RE: Re: Searching for Threads started by a poster...

Thanks Ralph!

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