Using the “Search” function of the SDMB, I mean. Going back to the old threads that one participated in months or years ago.
I realized that I’m actually one of the oldest members here, having signed up in March of 1999. Until recently, I hadn’t posted much, although I check the board frequently.
Anyway, it’s kinda nice to revisit those old threads I participated in. Also makes me realize how many folks aren’t around anymore (although there are TONS of great new folks!).
Anyway, anybody else ever do this, or am I just weird?
I do it all the time. Sometimes I’d have created a thread, and then forgotten about it or been away from the computer for a couple of weeks, and I’m amazed at how many responses I got. Plus it’s nice to revisit.
Because I live in a different timezone, threads I post to often get lost three pages into history by the next day, and I either can’t find them, or can’t remember what the heck they were called, or whatever. So I use the search funtion using my name then.
This search engine is the best I’ve seen for any message-board, by the way. Fast, accurate, and noooooo problems.
I do that to keep track of the threads I’m posting at. It’s much easier than trying to find them in the main lists. I also look up my friends sometimes to see if they’ve come up with anything interesting and havent told me
I do worse. I occasionally search for my screen name in the text of the posts, to see if anyone is talking about me. The first time I did this there was a pit thread with my name in it :eek: When I read it I was very happy (not to mention relieved) to find that a poster had put me in a list of people that the poster admired. I also found a couple of other threads that I hadn’t kept up on which said good things about me. :Insert tearfully happy smilie here:
Sauron is the name I originally tried to sign up as. I was wondering about that.
Anyway, yes I do. It’s weird(see guys, I spelled it correctly) to see the difference in how little I used to post and the crap I spew out now. Like this.
I did it! I even found my name in two threads I had never posted to. One was a poster who said they liked my screen name. The other was this one where CheifScott wrote a song about me.
Oh, come on, carnie. I recall checking the Straight Dope site before there was a message board. As I recall, when I first signed up, there weren’t many “members” per se; almost all posters were registered guests.
Besides, what are they gonna do, send an electric charge down the T-1 line if I say something like “Eutychus55 sucks” or “UncleBeer bites the big one”? I doubt that. I mean, paranoia is one thi
