# Find Posts by User Increased **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 29, 2004, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-posts-by-user-increased/277191 "2004-11-29T19:03:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-posts-by-user-increased/277191/1 "2004-11-29T19:03:52Z")
Just wanted to mention that I just noticed that the buffer for listing Posts by User went from 500 to 750. Kinda cool. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-posts-by-user-increased/277191/2 "2004-11-30T01:41:13Z")
Yeah, it’s a trial; let’s see how it affects overall performance. Hope it helps; a lot of you complained about this issue. your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-posts-by-user-increased/277191/3 "2004-11-30T19:51:21Z")
Hey, **TubaDiva**? While you’re at it, any chance you could make it so that I can easily do a vanity search on my own username? The apostrophe turns it into an invalid search- and I know that there’re other users who have the same problem? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-posts-by-user-increased/277191/4 "2004-11-30T19:58:16Z")
Hey Lightnin’ I just did a user search on your name - with the apostrophe - and it worked. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-posts-by-user-increased/277191/5 "2004-11-30T20:03:12Z")
Oh and I did a search on just lightnin (no apostrophe, standard search) and came up with 152 hits - and most of them appear to be referring to you. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-posts-by-user-increased/277191/6 "2004-11-30T20:40:54Z")
The limit for **all** searches has been increased to 750, not just by username. Maybe that’s why the board seems a little slow today. I’m guessing there’s no way to increase the limit only for username searches without some kind of custom modifications, which the PTB have said will happen very, very, very rarely. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-posts-by-user-increased/277191/7 "2004-12-01T03:37:27Z")
'Twould still be a nice touch if you could expand on the option “1 year ago and older/newer”, currently the farthest back you can _start_ from, by adding things like: “18 months ago and older/newer” “2 years ago and older/newer” “2.5 years ago and older/newer” “3 years ago and older/newer” This would actually result in _smaller_ searches a good portion of the time. Be that as it may, I can now snag any of my old posts in GQ or GD with the increase to 750 returned results. There are fewer than 750 older than a year in GD, and by switching between ascending and descending order I get an overlap between the oldest 750 and the 750 starting 1 year ago and going back in time in GD. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-posts-by-user-increased/277191/8 "2004-12-08T21:33:50Z")
Yeah, I can do a username search on " Lightin’ ", but if I try to see what other people are saying about me (heh), a search on " Lightin’ " as a keyword always returns “no matches”. Of course, I can always search for just “Lightnin” without the apostrophe… but that gets me a lot of results that really don’t have anything to deal with me. Allowing apostrophes to be used in a keyword search would resolve this. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-posts-by-user-increased/277191/9 "2004-12-09T07:10:45Z")
> [@](#): > > Allowing apostrophes to be used in a keyword search would resolve this. I don’t have any particular information about vBulletin specifically, but from what I know of programming in general, I suspect that this change could not be made without completely restructuring the search function from the ground up. Which is far beyond the scope of what the staff here is willing or able to do. Your best (and perhaps only) bet would be to ask the Jelsoft programmers, and hope that they change it for the next version. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-posts-by-user-increased/277191/10 "2004-12-09T19:25:49Z")
> [@Lightnin'](#): > > Of course, I can always search for just “Lightnin” without the apostrophe… but that gets me a lot of results that really don’t have anything to deal with me. But wouldn’t you exclude a lot of people who just call you Lightnin, without the apostrophe? Personally, if I were of the sort that did vanity searches, I’d be willing to wade through some extraneous threads than to miss something. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-posts-by-user-increased/277191/11 "2004-12-10T09:45:34Z")
In most SQL languages, the apostrophe (or single quote) serves to identify and delimit character strings. The solution in most systems is to replace each occurence of a single quote with two single quotes.