Possible to view "Who Posted?" from within a thread?

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See title. I know how to bring it up from the list of current threads, by clicking the number in the “Replies” column.

Is there any way to get to it from inside a thread? Sometimes I’m rereading an old thread, one which would be difficult or impossible to find by browsing through the thread list, and would like to view the “Who Posted?” list.

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Serious question, by the way, and not the setup for a dumb joke. The wariness is understandable.

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It would be a potentially useful feature. Bump

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I don’t know if this is what your after but it might come close enough. Click the “Display Modes” (right above the report button) and select “Switch to Hybrid mode”. It shows a list of sorts, but user post totals are not given.

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You can go to any subforum from a new tab, copy the link for the “Who Posted” link, then manually change the thread ID from the current thread to the older thread.

So let’s say we want to find out who posted in this thread.

Go to any subforum and copy any “Who Posted” link:
[noparse]http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/misc.php?do=whoposted&t=754029[/noparse]

Then change the thread ID to the thread in question:
[noparse]http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/misc.php?do=whoposted&t=[/noparse]**162415**

And voila! I don’t think there’s a better way to do it.

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huh. thanks!

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Full of yourself much?

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[Moderating]
Not appropriate for ATMB. Knock it off.
[/Moderating]

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N/M

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If anyone’s interested, I created a bookmarklet script to do this.

To use it, create a new bookmark/favorite (or edit an existing one), call it whatever you want, and paste the following code into the URL field (“Address” or “Location” or whatever), then save it.

When you’re in a thread, click the bookmark and it should bring up the “Who Posted?” window.


javascript:(function()%7Bvar%20a%20%3D%20window.location.search%3Bvar%20x%20%3D%20a.indexOf(%22t%3D%22)%3Bvar%20b%20%3D%20'http%3A%2F%2Fboards.straightdope.com%2Fsdmb%2Fmisc.php%3Fdo%3Dwhoposted%26t%3D'%3Bvar%20num_portion%20%3D%20%2F%3D(%5Cd%2B)%24%2F.exec(a)%3Bvar%20url%20%3D%20b%20%2B%20num_portion%5B1%5D%3Bif(x%3D%3D-1)%20%7Breturn%3B%7Delse%20%7Bwindow.open(url%2C%20'Who%20Posted%3F'%20%2C%20'height%3D300%2Cwidth%3D250%2Cscrollbars%3Dyes')%3B%7D%7D)()

Caveats:

  1. It only works from inside a thread, not when you’re viewing a specific post.

  2. I tested it in Firefox, Chrome and Safari. It didn’t work in IE, but I don’t really care and nobody should be using that crappy browser anyway. It also works on my iPhone, but it displays as a new browser window and not a pop-up.

  3. No warranties guaranteed or implied.

ETA: Thanks to Joker for the idea.

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In Firefox you could set up a bookmark with a keyword.

  1. Bookmark one of the above threads.
  2. Bring up the properties for the bookmark.
  3. In the URL, replace the thread id with “%s”, like so:

[noparse]http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/misc.php?do=whoposted&t=%s[/noparse]

  1. Type something convenient in the keyword field, like “wp” (no quotes). Click “save”.
  2. Now, in the Firefox address bar, you can just type “wp x” (where “x” is the thread id) and press enter.