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brumbie Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 994 Gender:	seem to be going around in circles Jun 18^th, 2012 at 11:46pm there was an old topic that i started that came up in the news again recently and i have been trying to get hold of it by looking in my profile..no luck..anybody know how to find your old posts or do we just have to dig?...lol...thanks guys.
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Re: seem to be going around in circles
Reply #1 - Jun 19^th, 2012 at 7:28am

brumbie wrote on Jun 18^th, 2012 at 11:46pm:

there was an old topic that i started that came up in the news again recently and i have been trying to get hold of it by looking in my profile..no luck..anybody know how to find your old posts or do we just have to dig?...lol...thanks guys.

Yeah the problem with this forum is you cant search for the topic only words in the posts.

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freediver Gold Member Online www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 48973 At my desk.	Re: seem to be going around in circles Reply #2 - Jun 19^th, 2012 at 8:02pm This allows you to search for words in the thread title: http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?action=search You can choose to search your own posts via the tick boxes or also someone else's. Make sure you choose "posted in by someone" in the dropdown box.
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brumbie Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 994 Gender:	Re: seem to be going around in circles Reply #3 - Jun 20^th, 2012 at 6:56am Thanks guys...got there.
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Reply #4 - Jun 20^th, 2012 at 7:00am

freediver wrote on Jun 19^th, 2012 at 8:02pm:

This allows you to search for words in the thread title:

http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?action=search

You can choose to search your own posts via the tick boxes or also someone else's. Make sure you choose "posted in by someone" in the dropdown box.

Aha - thanks

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Reply #5 - Jun 20^th, 2012 at 7:02am

freediver wrote on Jun 19^th, 2012 at 8:02pm:

This allows you to search for words in the thread title:

http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?action=search

You can choose to search your own posts via the tick boxes or also someone else's. Make sure you choose "posted in by someone" in the dropdown box.

Is this search exhaustive or is it limited in some way? I've used the search function in the past and it seemed to find only recent posts.

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MOTR Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6646	Re: seem to be going around in circles Reply #6 - Jun 20^th, 2012 at 7:05am Just had another look. It is limited to 15 posts. Is there any reason for this?
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Sir Spot of Borg Gold Member Offline WE ARE BORG Posts: 26506 Australia	Re: seem to be going around in circles Reply #7 - Jun 20^th, 2012 at 7:12am MOTR wrote on Jun 20^th, 2012 at 7:05am: Just had another look. It is limited to 15 posts. Is there any reason for this? Huh @ 15 posts . .. . SOB
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Reply #8 - Jun 20^th, 2012 at 8:54am

It's often easier (and MUCH quicker!) just to use google to do the search instead of the inbuilt search facility. You can tell google to search this site only by including

site:ozpolitic.com

in your search terms. For example:

Quote:

going in circles site:ozpolitic.com

Returned this thread as the first hit.

You may not find stuff that's been posted very recently (anything from the last hour to maybe the last day) but google usually keeps up to date pretty well.

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MOTR Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6646	Re: seem to be going around in circles Reply #9 - Jun 22^nd, 2012 at 3:50am Thanks, Gist. That's a really useful tip.
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JC Denton Gold Member Offline Posts: 5470 Gender:	Re: seem to be going around in circles Reply #10 - Jun 22^nd, 2012 at 2:53pm yeah the inbuilt search facility is absolute trash on this site 15 results? what? it also takes forever to find anything
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Reply #11 - Jun 22^nd, 2012 at 3:15pm

It restricts you to retrieving no more than the last 25 posts rather than 15. A bit odd, given that most forums will give you everything back to post number one - must just be a limitation of the software that they're using.

You should be able to find it using Google though - just put in your user name and a couple of key words from the post and it should come up in the results.

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Re: seem to be going around in circles
Reply #12 - Jun 22^nd, 2012 at 7:10pm

Frances wrote on Jun 22^nd, 2012 at 3:15pm:

It restricts you to retrieving no more than the last 25 posts rather than 15. A bit odd, given that most forums will give you everything back to post number one - must just be a limitation of the software that they're using.

You should be able to find it using Google though - just put in your user name and a couple of key words from the post and it should come up in the results.

It's a limitation of the forum. In previous versions, it was possible to post any value. They decided to limit this to 25 when they came up with YaBB 2.4 as a spam protection script. Previously you could insert any figure and it could bring the forum down to a crawl if several spambots fif the same thing. 25 seems like a low figure though.

There is a simple edit that can work around it, but it's up to FD if he wants to go that way.

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