# Does anyone else 'search' for past posts by members? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 12, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-search-for-past-posts-by-members/194744 "2003-08-12T21:48:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-search-for-past-posts-by-members/194744/21 "2003-08-13T04:49:48Z")
Yeah, usually if I see that they had said something interesting, and hadn’t heard of them before. Or, if I think they are being an ass, and I want to see if they are always an ass. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-search-for-past-posts-by-members/194744/22 "2003-08-13T10:43:19Z")
I avoid searches like the plague. If I see a name a dozen times or more, my sub-conscious starts noting it as “in the neighborhood” people. Currently I could name 3 users who know far more than me, and 1 user who is a complete fool. (Actually, that 1 user was brought to my attention in my only true history search; I looked up and read the entire [300+ post thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=187902) about .999… equalling 1. To this geek, that was one of the best reads I’ve had in a long time.) As I’m still so new here, my post count notwithstanding, I experience precious little name-recognition in either direction. Except any Zappa-related names, of course. Love every one of them. ---
**Author:** ![Lobelia\_Overhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@Lobelia\_Overhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobelia_Overhill)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-search-for-past-posts-by-members/194744/23 "2003-08-13T12:07:06Z")
I check to see my own posts, because this MB is so huge it’s impossible to keep track of what’s been said where … I was having this arguement with someone somewhere fecked if I can find it…? ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-search-for-past-posts-by-members/194744/24 "2003-08-13T19:15:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lainaf \* > \*\*You will learn, **Idle Thoughts,** that you can’t always judge a thread by its title. Sometimes a thread gets hijacked to BF Egypt, and hilarity ensues. Sometimes people are having a bit of fun under a very misleading title. There’s a thread like that now in MPSIMS. Can you find it? \*\* I looked… …For all of two minutes. No doubt it’s somewhere around, and probably right under my nose at that. It’s good to know I’m not the only stalker. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-search-for-past-posts-by-members/194744/25 "2003-08-14T00:09:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Idle Thoughts \* > \*\*I looked… > …For all of two minutes. > No doubt it’s somewhere around, and probably right under my nose at that. > It’s good to know I’m not the only stalker. \*\* Perhaps if you did a search on _me_… ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-search-for-past-posts-by-members/194744/26 "2003-08-14T00:32:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lainaf \* > \*\*Perhaps if you did a search on _me_… \*\* :smack: Never thought I’d have to use that smile. ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-search-for-past-posts-by-members/194744/27 "2003-08-14T00:35:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lainaf \* > \*\*Perhaps if you did a search on _me_… \*\* Did anyone else just _immediately_ click the search button on that post? ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-search-for-past-posts-by-members/194744/28 "2003-08-14T02:08:03Z")
My recent posts also contain a Cecil sighting. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-search-for-past-posts-by-members/194744/29 "2003-08-14T02:31:49Z")
I use search all the time. If not searching my own screenname for recent replies to my posts or reminiscing older threads of mine, I check out what posts made certain dopers banned, like Wildest Bill. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-search-for-past-posts-by-members/194744/30 "2003-08-14T02:51:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BuckleberryFerry \* > **I check NoClueBoy and Q.E.D. every so often…** Are you trying to _kill_ those poor hamsters woman?? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-search-for-past-posts-by-members/194744/31 "2003-08-14T16:27:44Z")
Go look at the [damn thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=201675&perpage=50&pagenumber=1) ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-search-for-past-posts-by-members/194744/32 "2003-08-14T19:34:55Z")
Very rarely. I can only think of two people I’ve searched: **vivalostwages** months ago, when I was still a relative newbie and just figuring out who’s who; and **NothingMan** , someone I met at a Dopefest and struck me as a genuinely interesting guy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-search-for-past-posts-by-members/194744.md?page=1)