If I wanted to look through someone’s posts, going back years if need be, what’s the most efficient way to do that? (Fewest steps, most complete search history, etc.) Sometimes one poster will catch my eye and I’ll get curious about who he/she is, what his/her other interests are besides the ones I’ve come across by chance, etc.
And also if there’s a topic I want to look up that’s been discussed, I’m sure, in the past, how can I do a search that gives me all the previous discussions of it? Right now, I’m thinking of doing my semi-annual binge of all thirty-six seasons of MAD MEN, and I’ve found a few discussions of previous episodes but it’s a little tedious to locate all of them in order. What’s the closest I can come to getting a page of past discussions in order of the original showings? The ones I’ve happened upon are pretty good, btw. Hardly anyone who discussed them seems to be around here anymore (unless they’ve changed their usernames) but they’re a pretty sharp-eyed bunch.
Click on their username, then click on it again (or the avatar) in the box that pops up. Either Activity or Summary should get you close to what you want.
Something like this?
Use the advanced search to search for “Mad Men” in the title and sorted into reverse chronological order (because there wasn’t an obvious way to do it from oldest to newest).
Thanks. I don’t know where the “Advanced Search” is. When I click on the search icon in the upper right, and type in “mad men” it gives me every post that uses those two words in it.
And if you then scroll down and click “More…”, does it list the posts with a clickable option on the right to sort them by Relevance or by Latest Post — and an Advanced Filters bit on the left, for Matching In Title?
OK, that helps a little bit. I found the teeny-tiny MORE link.
Is there a FAQ for searching on the SD? I find it difficult.
Searching for “mad men” on the MORE link gives me every instance of those words on the whole Board. How can I search only in CAFE SOCIETY?
Also, if I remember something, like a thread we had a while ago about authors who died in the middle of writing something (which most authors do) and the completion of their unfinished works by someone else, what would be the most efficient way to search for it? I thought maybe starting a new thread with many of those same terms would draw up a few “most similar threads” to the right of my new thread, but nope. Nothing.
I’ve got a lot of search questions, and I’m grateful for the help, but I suspect that these are (or could be) covered in an inclusive “How to Search…” FAQ page by those who are really good at it.