# Any way to get an alert when someone quotes your posts?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-get-an-alert-when-someone-quotes-your-posts/632355
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**Created:** [August 23, 2012, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-get-an-alert-when-someone-quotes-your-posts/632355 "2012-08-23T05:20:17Z")
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### Author:  [@bldysabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bldysabba)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-get-an-alert-when-someone-quotes-your-posts/632355/1 "2012-08-23T05:20:17Z")
It’d be easier to have conversations that way.
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### Author:  [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-get-an-alert-when-someone-quotes-your-posts/632355/2 "2012-08-23T08:55:17Z")
Not on SDMB but you can create a simple google saved search that emails you every time someone quote posts you.
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### Author:  [@bldysabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bldysabba)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-get-an-alert-when-someone-quotes-your-posts/632355/3 "2012-08-23T12:21:47Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#):
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> Not on SDMB but you can create a simple google saved search that emails you every time someone quote posts you.
That would be a cool work around. I haven’t ever done this, so would you care to lay out the process in slightly greater detail? Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-get-an-alert-when-someone-quotes-your-posts/632355/4 "2012-08-23T13:19:54Z")
> [@bldysabba](#):
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> That would be a cool work around. I haven’t ever done this, so would you care to lay out the process in slightly greater detail? Thanks!
Go to [Google Alerts](http://www.google.com/alerts), enter “site:straightdope.com “originally posted by bldysabba”” in the search criteria, and adjust the rest of the settings to your preferences.
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### Author:  [@bldysabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bldysabba)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2012, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-get-an-alert-when-someone-quotes-your-posts/632355/5 "2012-08-24T06:43:50Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#):
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> Not on SDMB but you can create a simple google saved search that emails you every time someone quote posts you.
> [@Munch](#):
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> Go to [Google Alerts](http://www.google.com/alerts), enter “site:straightdope.com “originally posted by bldysabba”” in the search criteria, and adjust the rest of the settings to your preferences.
That is awesome. Thank you both. Mods, this should go in the sticky for searching the site using google!
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### Author:  [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2012, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-get-an-alert-when-someone-quotes-your-posts/632355/6 "2012-08-24T18:33:12Z")
That is cool!
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### Author:  [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-get-an-alert-when-someone-quotes-your-posts/632355/7 "2012-08-24T18:34:30Z")
> [@Astroboy14](#):
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> That is cool!
Testing it now…
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### Author:  [@elninost0rm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elninost0rm)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2012, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-get-an-alert-when-someone-quotes-your-posts/632355/8 "2012-08-24T19:42:16Z")
[QUOTE=elninost0rm]
Testing it now…
[/QUOTE]
Ditto.
Yes this violates the “don’t change the quoted poster” rule, but I didn’t want to make two posts.
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### Author:  [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2012, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-get-an-alert-when-someone-quotes-your-posts/632355/9 "2012-08-24T20:05:19Z")
I’ve been meaning to ask about this, but never got around to it. I love when my question gets answered before I even ask it! Thank you **jack davinci** and **Munch**!
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### Author:  [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2012, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-get-an-alert-when-someone-quotes-your-posts/632355/10 "2012-08-25T02:58:59Z")
> [@Astroboy14](#):
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> Testing it now…
Testing again.
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### Author:  [@bldysabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bldysabba)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2012, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-get-an-alert-when-someone-quotes-your-posts/632355/11 "2012-08-25T14:11:55Z")
> [@Astroboy14](#):
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> Testing again.
Heh. In my excitement, I didn’t think to test it. Also, I set it to a “Once a day” update, so testing involves two steps 🙂 I’ll do it in one instead - Does it work?
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### Author:  [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2012, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-get-an-alert-when-someone-quotes-your-posts/632355/12 "2012-08-25T14:41:56Z")
> [@Astroboy14](#):
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> Testing again.
Not so far… let’s try this. Hmm… do I need the quotes around things?
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### Author:  [@bldysabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bldysabba)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-get-an-alert-when-someone-quotes-your-posts/632355/13 "2012-08-25T15:05:15Z")
> [@bldysabba](#):
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> Heh. In my excitement, I didn’t think to test it. Also, I set it to a “Once a day” update, so testing involves two steps 🙂 I’ll do it in one instead - Does it work?
test
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### Author:  [@bldysabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bldysabba)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2012, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-get-an-alert-when-someone-quotes-your-posts/632355/14 "2012-08-25T15:08:29Z")
There may be some latency involved from Google’s end of things. Their version of this page is still two days old, with only 5 posts in it.
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-get-an-alert-when-someone-quotes-your-posts/632355/15 "2012-08-25T15:40:31Z")
> [@Astroboy14](#):
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> do I need the quotes around things?
Just around the “originally posted by XXXXXX” bit.
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### Author:  [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2012, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-get-an-alert-when-someone-quotes-your-posts/632355/16 "2012-08-25T17:13:19Z")
Still nothing. Maybe there’s a large lag time.
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### Author:  [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2012, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-get-an-alert-when-someone-quotes-your-posts/632355/17 "2012-08-26T10:40:49Z")
There’s some lag but it works for me. Obviously it’s going to take longer if you select “once a day” but there is also a “all results” vs “top results” option for which you should pick the former.
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### Author:  [@bldysabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bldysabba)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-get-an-alert-when-someone-quotes-your-posts/632355/18 "2012-08-27T19:20:39Z")
> [@Astroboy14](#):
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> Still nothing. Maybe there’s a large lag time.
I did finally get an alert for this thread. Also, I think if you include a string in quotes, capitalisation may be important. So “originally posted by astroboy14” may not work, while “Originally posted by Astroboy14” may.
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### Author:  [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-get-an-alert-when-someone-quotes-your-posts/632355/19 "2012-08-29T16:58:02Z")
> [@Astroboy14](#):
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> Testing it now…
Testing it again…
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### Author:  [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-get-an-alert-when-someone-quotes-your-posts/632355/20 "2012-08-30T20:50:49Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#):
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> There’s some lag but it works for me. Obviously it’s going to take longer if you select “once a day” but there is also a “all results” vs “top results” option for which you should pick the former.
It seems it hasn’t been working for me the way it used to. Testing again now with stricter capitalization…