# How do I find...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-find/180435>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [June 8, 2003, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-find/180435 "2003-06-08T10:00:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-find/180435/1 "2003-06-08T10:00:23Z")

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…a poster who never posted and don’t know what their userid is?

Is it possible?

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**Author:** ![Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Guy)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-find/180435/2 "2003-06-08T12:31:49Z")

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If you just want to get a look at their profile, and you at least have their username, you can use an url like this:

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&username=foo+bar+quux](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&username=foo+bar+quux)

Replace the “foo+bar+quux” with the actual username, of course, with any spaces in the name converted to a “+”.