# looking up profiles

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-up-profiles/47953>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [January 1, 2001, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-up-profiles/47953 "2001-01-01T00:20:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2001, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-up-profiles/47953/1 "2001-01-01T00:20:21Z")

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How do I look up another member’s profile? I thought I could do it by clicking on the members button, but all I get there is “Sorry! The administrator has disabled the list of members.”

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**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2001, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-up-profiles/47953/2 "2001-01-01T00:30:13Z")

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Look at the person’s post, and at the bottom, you’ll see a little bar which has, among other things, a “profile” button. Some people put almost nothing in their profile, some put quite a lot.

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**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2001, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-up-profiles/47953/3 "2001-01-01T00:58:59Z")

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Thanks, I missed that.

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**Author:** ![barstow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/90db22/32.png) [@barstow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barstow)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2001, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-up-profiles/47953/4 "2001-01-01T01:05:34Z")

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I just made a Favorites bookmark to my own link.  
Yours is:

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

Click on it and then substitute their names at the end.

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**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2001, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-up-profiles/47953/5 "2001-01-01T01:31:44Z")

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Oh, that’s a good idea for if I don’t happen to be reading something by the person I want to look up at the moment. Thank you, too.

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**Author:** ![Totoro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Totoro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totoro)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2001, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-up-profiles/47953/6 "2001-01-01T19:02:19Z")

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If you can’t find a post of a person you want the profile for, you could always use the search button at the top of every page. You can find posts and other stuff by a member.