Pyrotex Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 Miscommunication or a lack thereof? I thought to say more but his OP didn't appear to be actually asking for any help in how to use the search features correctly:Too bad OP shagged out.Maybe I can take his place, because the so-called "search" function in this site has been one of my pet peeves. Is "peeves" the plural of "peef"?? Anyway, why not tell ME how to use the search feature correctly. for example, I would like to search all sites for several of my older posts, especially poems and longer essays.Many appreciations.Pyro the Errant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C1ay Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 Anyway, why not tell ME how to use the search feature correctly. for example, I would like to search all sites for several of my older posts, especially poems and longer essays.Many appreciations.Pyro the Errant Craig already elaborated pretty well above. When searching for your own posts use the advanced search and search by user name. Simply putting your name in the initial search form searches for it as a keyword which will only return posts with your name in the body of the post. In the lower left corner of the advanced search form tick the posts radio button, threads is ticked by default, to find posts by you instead of threads started by you. This will find all posts by you. Above these radio buttons you can sort by date, replies, views, forums, etc. Above this you can specify date ranges and above that you can specify that you only want posts with one or more replies if you want. You might also find it helpful that you can use quotes in the keyword box to search for posts with phrases like "Johnson Space Center" or "Howdy. I'm new here at Hypography so excuse me if I get off on the wrong foot. (Which foot would that be?)" :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modest Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 Using BBSes and usenet in the mid 90’s instilled in me a tendency to sign my handle on each message for ease of future searching. Of course, with all the options to subscribe to threads and search by username available now—it’s a pretty useless practice. ~modest :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C1ay Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 Nowadays some users simply tag each of their posts with their user name for this same purpose... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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