Do a vanity search on your Username; what's the oldest thread on your list?

[Rhythmdvl]

@Zeldar

Perhaps I wasn’t clear in the OP. I do know how to look at older threads than the ones that show up in an “Advanced Search” on Username with no adjustments to the search criteria.

But if all one does is that minimal amount of criteria setting, it’s my experience that 30 pages (25 posts per page) or 750 threads’ worth is what comes back.

I was wanting to get a gauge, from those willing to share, of how far back your “oldest thread” takes you. Mine is less than a year’s worth.

This any clearer on what I was hoping to learn from other posters?

Thanks for asking, by the way. I see there’s my usual lack of clarity going on.

I still have no idea what you’re asking for.

If I search on the “find posts by” half of the search page and set it to look way back, I end up with my first post (10-14-1999). I killed an otherwise interesting thread (an unfortunate pattern that would repeat itself over the next thirteen years): Favorite shows, hated episodes

If I put Rhythmdvl in the left half of the search box (is *that *what people mean by ‘vanity search’?) and set no other parameters, the oldest thread isn’t that much later: 11-16-2000.

I’d long forgotten about it, but it’s fascination. In a thread simple titled CIA, now-banned member Peace quoted/asked a GD question about a thread I’d started on 11-14-2000: Legitimate critiques of the CIA. The basic ideas that started the thread(s) was my generalized disdain for the CIA and quest for a credible cites to test the assumptions behind the disdain.

The fascinating bit (to me, at least, now I know why they’re called ‘vanity’ searches), is date on the thread and the following quote from the OP:

@peace

What would **Rhythmdvl **have replace the critical (and sometimes unpalatable) functions of the CIA in the nasty real world where terrorists plot and plan to wreak destruction on American targets of opportunity both inside and outside the US?

Americans are allowed the luxury of taking freedoms and ideals seriously because there are “bad guys” like the CIA in the shadows, de-lousing the place.