Request: Ability to search/find threads created by me!

[Nicholas Steel]

Currently it seems the search option only lets you find posts you've made, not threads you've created. I'd like to see the feature set extended to include the ability to search for threads created by a user.

[Glenn the Great]

Actually it works the opposite of how you describe. If I put 'Glenn the Great' in the user name field it returns just the threads I've started, not my posts in other peoples' threads.

[Nicholas Steel]

Hmm okay, it's just the additional options says "Find posts".

[Glenn the Great]

Yeah, that checkbox doesn't seem to make any difference in the results I get.
It would be nice if we could search by Threads or by Posts.

I'll make a note of this for an Admin to take a look at when he has time.

[ctrl-alt-delete]

It's a known issue with this, and the last several versions of vBulletin. They claim 5 is going to fix it.

In the short term, Google is the best option. You can also click the username in a post and click View Forum Posts and click Find Latest Posts in profiles.

It also doesn't help that our database has been restored so many times and the large gaps of inactivity due to the forum being overrun by spam.

After doing a search myself, I can't replicate the problem. I searched for glenn the great(which automatically took out the) and "glenn the great" and it brought up every thread he had responded in. Probably irrelevant, but I'm using the Morbid Dark theme and clicking the search input box in the top right and hitting enter--not going advanced.

Edit: I should mention I also did this on a test account as a regular member and it worked fine.

[Glenn the Great]

I was searching on User Name from the Advanced Search page. In case it matters, my theme is Default White.

Putting my name into the search input box like you did gives me a ton of results (about 400 posts), but these are not mine; rather they are posts where someone has mentioned me (I'm a pretty popular guy as it turns out).
These are also the same results I get when I do a keyword search on my name from the Advanced page, so I think the search box is just a shortcut to the Advanced keyword search.

[SUCCESSOR]

I haven't tried punching in user in the Advanced Search but I have used the "find posts by this user" in profiles and it seems to function correctly. The other day I looked a a bunch of my old posts for shits and giggles and it brought up both threads I started and ones I replied to. I also used it to see when @Shadowblazer last posted when he made that phony comeback; worked fine then also.

[Glenn the Great]

I feel a strange mixture of pride and horror when I read my posts from 10 years ago.

[SUCCESSOR]

I feel a strange mixture of pride and horror when I read my posts from 10 years ago.

Kolt and I had some lauighs about our old posts a few times in chat. I feel exactly the same way you do. I noticed a lot of your old posts are listed under guest/deleted user. Is that why they aren't appearing in your search or are those coming up?

[Glenn the Great]

At one point my account was deleted in a fit of rage by one of the staff members, it might have been Breaker. I had to re-register and that's why my join date says 2009 instead of October 2000.
My old posts don't come up in search (by username), but the 3 threads I've started on my new account do. The 100 or so other posts don't.

Only 3 topics that I've started on this account. I'm one of those posters that is better at responding to what others have said than coming up with things of my own.