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‘cod’?
Ban me for a week if this pisses you off (me asking a question that has already had closure and I could have searched for)… is the inability of the seach function, when given a doper’s name as the keyword, to return posts where that name was used in the new style of quote code a board policy decision or is it merely something that has been overlooked or the techs haven’t got around to, or can’t be bothered to ‘correct’.
I say correct because it is a ‘wrong’. It takes half the fun out of using the SDMB. I won’t lie to you I am vain and I love to find where I have been quoted and so respond.
I’m assuming that your predicate, that search will not return embedded code like “quote=lobsang”, is accurate.
I’d guess that it’s an artefact of vBulletin coding, not something that can be readily fixed (and the Reader is very loath to tweak vBulletin code except in ways documented on the vBulletin technical-support board).
However, an easy work-around is to do a vanity search and eliminate from the results the threads where your post is the last one in that thread. A quick skim of the other threads from the point at which you posted onward will give you the times that you have been quoted. It’s a fraction more work, but will give the results you want.
But, such a search wouldn’t include threads which quote (with code) someone who hasn’t actually posted in those threads. i.e. Something from another thread is quoted in a new thread. (I’m not sure if I made that quite clear.)
Anyhoo…
Er, is that you Poly in that other username?
I’ve been on another vbulletin 3 board where the search does return posts with the quote=Lobsang part.