# Is there anyway to search for posts that quote your posts? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 19, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-search-for-posts-that-quote-your-posts/619322 "2012-04-19T20:50:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-search-for-posts-that-quote-your-posts/619322/1 "2012-04-19T20:50:33Z")
Just as the title says. Can you search for instances where people directly responded to something you posted? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-search-for-posts-that-quote-your-posts/619322/2 "2012-04-19T21:12:40Z")
Search your username. If they use the “Quote” feature, your name will be there and pop up on a search. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-search-for-posts-that-quote-your-posts/619322/3 "2012-04-19T21:17:09Z")
The “vanity search” of using your Username as a Keyword, with the wildcard \* at the end of it will pickup anything like \'s and such. I do mine by searching for Zeldar\* and any time I’m mentioned by name comes up. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-search-for-posts-that-quote-your-posts/619322/4 "2012-04-19T21:40:12Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Search your username. If they use the “Quote” feature, your name will be there and pop up on a search. It doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-search-for-posts-that-quote-your-posts/619322/5 "2012-04-19T21:46:44Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > The “vanity search” of using your Username as a Keyword, with the wildcard \* at the end of it will pickup anything like \'s and such. I do mine by searching for Zeldar\* and any time I’m mentioned by name comes up. Yes but not when you’re quoted. If the poster doesn’t invoke your name in their post the quoting post doesn’t come up. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-search-for-posts-that-quote-your-posts/619322/6 "2012-04-19T21:52:29Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > Yes but not when you’re quoted. If the poster doesn’t invoke your name in their post the quoting post doesn’t come up. Then I don’t know another way. In your specific case, try _gadai_ in the keyword search. You may get extraneous stuff, but with two separate parts to your name, it may be necessary. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-search-for-posts-that-quote-your-posts/619322/7 "2012-04-19T21:58:02Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > It doesn’t. Sure it does. I just did a vanity search, and the only thing that popped up in red in a number of threads is my name in the quote box: Originally Posted by silenus. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-search-for-posts-that-quote-your-posts/619322/8 "2012-04-19T22:28:26Z")
OK just to be clear. Whenever I search my username with “Show Posts” selected I only get posts where posters have used my name in the body of their post, not ones where they just quoted me as far as I can see. What am I doing wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-search-for-posts-that-quote-your-posts/619322/9 "2012-04-19T22:33:50Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > OK just to be clear. Whenever I search my username with “Show Posts” selected I only get posts where posters have used my name in the body of their post, not ones where they just quoted me as far as I can see. What am I doing wrong? Maybe nothing – I just did the same thing and see the same results you describe. Since it works for me, I’m wondering if the search function isn’t somehow automatically replacing the í with an i before running the search. Which would mean there’s nothing you can do about it. Let that be a lesson to you for using one of those crazy foreign characters. Not on _my_ SDMB, mister! ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-search-for-posts-that-quote-your-posts/619322/10 "2012-04-19T22:35:58Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Maybe nothing – I just did the same thing and see the same results you describe. Since it works for me, I’m wondering if the search function isn’t somehow automatically replacing the í with an i before running the search. Which would mean there’s nothing you can do about it. > > Let that be a lesson to you for using one of those crazy foreign characters. Not on _my_ SDMB, mister! A search for “An Gada\*” might work. Or not. Tried, and since it won’t allow “an” as a keyword, generated way too many false positives. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-search-for-posts-that-quote-your-posts/619322/11 "2012-04-19T22:37:00Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > OK just to be clear. Whenever I search my username with “Show Posts” selected I only get posts where posters have used my name in the body of their post, not ones where they just quoted me as far as I can see. What am I doing wrong? If you’re using Advanced Search, on the left side put _gadai_ in the Keyword box and select “search entire posts” and “search all open forums.” That should bring up all occurrences of your name in the text of the posts. Unless others refer to your name, that approach will not work. If they have quoted you without mentioning your name, you’d have to know some keyword(s) in your original post(s)to search for. That could get unwieldy. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-search-for-posts-that-quote-your-posts/619322/12 "2012-04-19T22:47:20Z")
I just hit Control-F and use the browser’s search function. Type in Joey and hit enter a few times. I’ll get my name up at the very top of the page, then my post then I’ll find out if I was quoted or mentioned anywhere in that thread. Fastest and most reliable method I know of assuming you’re searching within a specific thread and not on across the entire board. You can even click to the next page and your search string will stay in the search box (at least in Firefox and I think it will in IE and Chrome as well) and then just keep hitting enter. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-search-for-posts-that-quote-your-posts/619322/13 "2012-04-19T22:52:28Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Let that be a lesson to you for using one of those crazy foreign characters. Not on _my_ SDMB, mister! That’s it, I’m moving over to GB post haste. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2012, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-search-for-posts-that-quote-your-posts/619322/14 "2012-04-19T22:55:24Z")
[This](https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=site%3Astraightdope.com+%22ad+gadai%22#hl=en&safe=off&biw=1366&bih=643&sclient=psy-ab&q=site%3Astraightdope.com+%22posted+by+An+Gada%C3%AD%22&oq=site:straightdope.com+%22posted+by+An+Gada%C3%AD%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=1&gs_nf=1&gs_l=serp.3...10769.11346.2.11521.7.6.0.0.0.2.171.570.3j2.5.0.pfwc.1.uIUQTzoUGg0&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=a366a72422fd9740) does most of the work for you. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-search-for-posts-that-quote-your-posts/619322/15 "2012-04-19T23:03:42Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > [This](https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=site%3Astraightdope.com+%22ad+gadai%22#hl=en&safe=off&biw=1366&bih=643&sclient=psy-ab&q=site%3Astraightdope.com+%22posted+by+An+Gada%C3%AD%22&oq=site:straightdope.com+%22posted+by+An+Gada%C3%AD%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=1&gs_nf=1&gs_l=serp.3...10769.11346.2.11521.7.6.0.0.0.2.171.570.3j2.5.0.pfwc.1.uIUQTzoUGg0&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=a366a72422fd9740) does most of the work for you. Also, if you hit “More Search Tools” on the left and choose Past 24 hours or Past Week it’ll give you more relevant results and you don’t end up with year old posts mixed in.