Finding my own posts

Horlock

This may be really obvious to you, but i'm trying to find my own posts.

So I tried Advanced search and searching by user name (which there is no secret of it's Horlock)

Sure enough it shows me every discussion that I've posted in - trouble is I don't want to find the discussions - I want to find my posts - some of them are in discussions with almost 3000 posts - I've tried going page by page and control - fing my user name (which takes two goes each page as my user name is also at the top of the page).

I find it hard to believe there is no way of getting directly to my posts - but maybe it is - or maybe I'm just stupid and missed the obvious. Any useful tips greatfully thanked - (if I can find this post again!:D )

shellsuit

Look at one of your posts.

Click on your user name on the left side of the post and then click 'find more posts by horlock'

marleyboy

Count yourself lucky, I find if I do an advanced search for all of my posts, it has lost half of them, be them replies to forums or new messages I have posted. Not all of them are there, I sometimes find them if I go through the pages on a particular forum, even though the search cannot do it for me.

RightRevBod

In the search, one of the options is to show posts rather than threads. This should do what you want.

reehsetin

How do i search for a member?

1. Click on members on the top menubar
2. Click on "Advanced search" in the second menubar
3. Fill in details and search away.

How Do I Search Something By A Particular User?
Click on 'Search' on the top menu bar at the top right of the page
On the little sub-menu, click on 'Advanced Search'
The top left of the page you will see this->
Enter in the username of the person who's content you want to search
from the drop down menu either select to search for a members particular post, or for a whole thread that they have made

How Do I Search For A Particular Post?
Click on 'Search' on the top menu bar at the top right of the page
On the little sub-menu, click on 'Advanced Search'
Put the key words for what you are looking for in the 'Key Word(s)' box
If you know that the post is in a particular section of the site, then press on that section and it should become highlighted, if you want to search more than one section but not the whole site, keep hold of the 'ctrl' key and click on all the sections you want, they should all become highlighted.
Click the 'posts' option at the bottom so it will show you the individual posts instead of threads


How Do I Search For A Particular Thread?
Click on 'Search' on the top menu bar at the top right of the page
On the little sub-menu, click on 'Advanced Search'

If you know what the thread is generally about but not the thread title put the key words for what you are looking for in the 'Key Word(s)' box
If you know that the post is in a particular section of the site, then press on that section and it should become highlighted, if you want to search more than one section but not the whole site, keep hold of the 'ctrl' key and click on all the sections you want, they should all become highlighted.
Ensure the 'threads' option at the bottom is selected


If you know roughly what the thread title is put the key words of the thread title in the 'Key Word(s)' box
In the drop down box just below the keywords box select 'search titles only'
If you know that the post is in a particular section of the site, then press on that section and it should become highlighted, if you want to search more than one section but not the whole site, keep hold of the 'ctrl' key and click on all the sections you want, they should all become highlighted.
Ensure the 'threads' option at the bottom is selected

reehsetin

should be the same for on here

sra

The quickest way to find your own posts is subscriptions.

Just make sure that in your options you are automatically subscribing (You can set it to subscribe but "no email notification" if you don't want the email)

The MSE page I have bookmarked is the subscription page. So I'm entering MSE by seeing if things I've subscribed to have been posted on recently (ones with the most recent replies go to the top)

tyllwyd

I used to use a different forum based on the same software as this one.

In that forum, if you went to your User CP, you would find a list of your own posts - in the same way as you see posts when you click on someone's user name. That made it much easier to find the threads that you have contributed to - is there any reason we couldn't have that here?

sra

tyllwyd wrote:

I used to use a different forum based on the same software as this one.

In that forum, if you went to your User CP, you would find a list of your own posts - in the same way as you see posts when you click on someone's user name. That made it much easier to find the threads that you have contributed to - is there any reason we couldn't have that here?

Apart from subscriptions, you can also click My Profile (from Quick Links above) to see your profile quickly and click on Find all posts by...

tyllwyd

That's brilliant! That's exactly what I've been trying to find. Thank you.