# Finding all of my posts

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-all-of-my-posts/677054>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [December 24, 2013, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-all-of-my-posts/677054 "2013-12-24T00:41:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2013, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-all-of-my-posts/677054/1 "2013-12-24T00:41:52Z")

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I tried the “search all posts by this user” on myself today and it only has posts going back a few weeks or months. Is there a way of finding all of the posts I’ve ever posted?

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**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2013, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-all-of-my-posts/677054/2 "2013-12-24T01:22:43Z")

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[Use Google](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=638051).

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**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2013, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-all-of-my-posts/677054/3 "2013-12-24T01:22:50Z")

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All search results tap out at 750. If you want to go back farther than that you must engage in some search engine jiggery-pokery like having it display oldest to newest or starting a year ago.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2013, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-all-of-my-posts/677054/4 "2013-12-29T15:52:46Z")

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Use the advance search page#

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php)

Search by USER NAME [EmilyG]  
Show results as threads  
That will show the most recent 500 threads you’ve participated in. To see older ones you can use date options like FIND POSTS FROM [2 years ago] AND [older]

Or you could search each forum one at a time.

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**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-all-of-my-posts/677054/5 "2013-12-30T10:37:52Z")

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Click on your user name and then click statistics then find all posts/threads by yadda yadda…

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**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-all-of-my-posts/677054/6 "2013-12-30T10:43:53Z")

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Tried that on you and it bottomed out at 500 with the earliest post being 10-30-2013  
The earliest op I can get is 05-27-2012

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**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-all-of-my-posts/677054/7 "2013-12-30T10:49:04Z")

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Looks like you can only access the last 500 posts maybe via here. Google can possibly find the rest