What search and what threadsuck have you been trying? The couple tests I run worked, so let me play in your playground.

Question re: search:

Is there a way to search by the name of the poster? I was looking for something that I seem to remember was pithy and apt in a past voting discussion, but when I searched for my name in Lightbulbs I only found where people used my name. How do we search for our own posts?

(Threadsuck tends to give my computer a heart attack with larger threads)

No, the current search only searches the content of the posts, not the poster names or taglines.

By design.

When you say "by design," Liese, what exactly do you mean? I initially coded it that way because it was one step instead of two, not because of any higher reason. I don't know how much weight that phrase carries here.

what exactly do you mean?

There was a desire among some members to specifically not allow searches by poster name.

It was felt (by me, yes, at the time) that not allowing search by poster name gave one (thin, yes, and altogether surpassable) layer of privacy against the putative mysterious internet stalker. Not anything that anyone with threadsuck and a few seconds couldn't overcome, but still, there it was.

I dunno that I still feel that way these days, but perhaps I have become complacent and lazy and marginally less paranoid. Okay, probably still paranoid, but nonetheless.

The internet is public, I know.

There was a desire among some members to specifically not allow searches by poster name.

I did not remember that.

I will throw out my periodic reminder that you are indeed naked once you've posted here, whatever robot.txt files we set or search fields we allow--the post can be tied to your posting name until you delete it. I'd hate for anyone to forget that.

Connie, threadsucking the thread and using your browser's search function is one workaround.

That's what I eventually did, but it took a couple of times for my system to succesfully threadsuck all of Lightbulbs.