# Is the "Find All Posts By" feature working (or is there a way to work it)?

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**Created:** [September 15, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-find-all-posts-by-feature-working-or-is-there-a-way-to-work-it/463746 "2008-09-15T21:30:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-find-all-posts-by-feature-working-or-is-there-a-way-to-work-it/463746/1 "2008-09-15T21:30:03Z")

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Question says it all. I used to access it by clicking on a username and selecting “find all posts” but now it redirects me to the general search screen; is there a way to find it from there?

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**Author:** ![flyboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4da419/32.png) [@flyboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flyboy)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-find-all-posts-by-feature-working-or-is-there-a-way-to-work-it/463746/2 "2008-09-15T21:38:46Z")

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Earlier today I used it via the Search by username function and it worked fine for me (although I selected Threads Started By vice All Posts).

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-find-all-posts-by-feature-working-or-is-there-a-way-to-work-it/463746/3 "2008-09-15T22:58:34Z")

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Moving to ATMB from GQ.

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**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-find-all-posts-by-feature-working-or-is-there-a-way-to-work-it/463746/4 "2008-09-15T23:37:51Z")

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Highlight the user name in a post, rightclick to get “open in new window”, so you can see the user’s profile, go down on the right side to mini statistics, click on show all statistics, then “show all posts by” should show up.

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**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-find-all-posts-by-feature-working-or-is-there-a-way-to-work-it/463746/5 "2008-09-16T17:46:10Z")

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> [@Sampiro](#):
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> Question says it all. I used to access it by clicking on a username and selecting “find all posts” but now it redirects me to the general search screen; is there a way to find it from there?

The 5 minute limit on search is not displaying the countdown screen explaining that it’s too soon since your last search - it’s simply redirecting back to the search page, and the effect is turning up in the many places you can invoke search form.

I would request that they bump this issue up a bit - I think it would go a long way to reducing confusion.