Searching for posts by the poster’s name only

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To further explain: my user name is also the name of an iconic guitar brand. If I do a search for my posts or threads, is there a way to do so that excludes all the instances in guitar threads?

IOW, search for “Stratocaster” instances as a poster only, not for every instance of a mention of the guitar.

My own damn fault for choosing that name.

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You can just go to a poster’s activity page. Yours is below:

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You can also try searching for @Stratocaster

For all that, to find your own posts, just search for @me

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Thanks, guys. Simple enough…

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Thanks, I didn’t know about that. But the posts from this method do come up in what seems to be random order (not date, not topic, as far as I can see). So you can narrow the search by using a search term in quotes after the @me. Like @me “gophers” will find any posts I have (ever?) made where the word “gophers” is used. (I found this out by trying it. There were 6 posts. Too many gophers.)

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I think the sorting is by whatever Discourse calls “relevance.” There should be a box on the right that lets you sort by relevance, most recent post, and so on.

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I tried looking for Eve’s postings the other day and @Eve came up dry – didn’t even come up with her name when the suggestions came up. I figured,having retired before the Great Discourse Migration, none of her works transitioned and no one noticed.

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That should have worked. It worked for me.

Just to make sure it wasn’t a mod/admin thing I unbanned one of our test accounts and searched from there. All of Eve’s posts came up.

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https://boards.straightdope.com/search?q=%40Eve%20order%3Alatest

Dunno what happened in your case, of course, but if you try to copy/paste the name in, it won’t work a lot of times.

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Echoing e_c_g, I tried the @Eve search and it returned hundreds of hits.

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And now mine does too. Weird. I was looking for the brunch with Olivia DeHaviland thread thread.

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I don’t see a box on the right (or in any other direction). If I click on the 3-line menu it takes me to a page where a lot of filters are available, but no sorting.

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The sorting option doesn’t come up until you get the results of the search. Then you narrow it down by newest, latest, etc.

So you do a search for @eve and when the results come up, it’s always sorted by relevance. You can change that by clicking on the “sort by” button.

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I recently learned that’s called a hamburger menu or hamburger button.

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Yup, this is the term I learned and what I call it (when I guide/tutor/consult/etc.). Think of it as a patty between a top and bottom bun.