# A different type of vanity search question
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-type-of-vanity-search-question/286026
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**Created:** [January 22, 2005, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-type-of-vanity-search-question/286026 "2005-01-22T02:29:26Z")
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2005, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-type-of-vanity-search-question/286026/1 "2005-01-22T02:29:26Z")
I have way too many posts for the “Find posts by user” function to give me a real breakdown of my posting fequency in the different fora. (No, I haven’t tried it in a long, long time, but with the 500 or 1000 post limit on the search, why bother?)
Any way of not killing the ham(p)sters and yet still finding out if I post more in Cafe than the Pit (or any other combo)?
Not terribly pressing, I’m just curious. If a good way is known, I might try on some good ham(p)ster day. Or, if it is too server intensive, I just won’t do it.
Thanks in advance and remember this is ATMB. 😉
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### Author:  [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2005, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-type-of-vanity-search-question/286026/2 "2005-01-22T06:34:33Z")
Using “NoClueBoy” as the username, leaving the “Key Word(s)” blank, specifying “Show Results as Posts,” and then highlighting **ATMB** on the Forum selection list, returned the following response:
> [@](#):
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> Showing results 1 to 25 of 269
> Search took 19.26 seconds.
You may do this once for each Forum over the next 8 nights (preferably between the hours of 03:00 and 04:00 CST), changing the Forum each day, to discover your overall posting history by Forum
You are welcome.
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### Author:  [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2005, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-type-of-vanity-search-question/286026/3 "2005-01-22T12:01:52Z")
**NoClueBoy** , I suggest you contact the SDMB gopher **Earthling**. I’m sure he has a way out for you:
> **[Useless SDMB Statistics (and long, too)](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=259417)**
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> Prompted by this question, on May 30 I looked through the threads in each forum over the past year and ran some statistics on them. The raw data is available here (4.5 MB .ZIP file; expands to Excel format) for anyone interested in further...
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2005, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-type-of-vanity-search-question/286026/4 "2005-01-22T15:04:19Z")
Unless you’re wanting actual raw data, t shouldn’t be that hard to guess. Without searching, I’d be willing to bet everything in my bank account that my posting frequency is highest in CS and IMHO and lowest in the Pit and ATMB and I’m an active poster in every forum except CCC and CSR.
Of course, you do post a hell of a lot more than even I do so maybe it blurs all together after a point.
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2005, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-type-of-vanity-search-question/286026/5 "2005-01-22T15:06:58Z")
> [@Aesiron](#):
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> …and I’m an active poster in every forum except CCC and CSR…
And GD. The discussions there are often more snarky than the Pit.
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2005, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-type-of-vanity-search-question/286026/6 "2005-01-22T15:17:48Z")
Yeah, cause the cutoff in search is 750.
In ATMB or CCC, no problem.
But in MSPSMSISP, Cafe, and the Pit, that would barely scratch the surface.
I _think_ I rank in this order: Cafe, Pit, MPIOUSAMA, GQ, all the others, but that damn 3K thread of mine in MWIMW throws everything off. Yeah, after the big stink, I wanted to find my actual posting wonts, but ran into the same prob. No current stink, but I have become curious again.
**Tomn** , that method would work for many posters, but it has limitations for high volume / long term posters like myself who post heavily (750+) in several different fora.