What is your experience with the Search function on this board?

[patrice]

I don't seem to be able to pull up a huge thread I was in a week or two ago on the topic of how people acquire their beliefs about God from their parents. I've searched it every way I can think of and I'm not a novice. What gives?

[tammywammy]

1. Did you do the advanced search?

It's probably archived by now, if it was in GD.

I find Search can be difficult when I want something specific, but if it's a general thing then not so bad.

[patrice]

6. Yes. I did Advanced Search.

[Finder]

2. Here is the thread...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=214x86320

If you search on your username, it should be easy to find.

[patrice]

10. Thanks very much.

I'm responding to a request for material on Faith from our newspaper.

I don't understand; I searched my name, patrice, as author, in Religion/Theology, with parents in the subject of the OP . . . ?

I have no idea what I was doing wrong and I Hate that!

[BrotherBuzz]

3. Try advanced search with your name as author

I see every post you made (six pages worth) dating back to 02 Aug. :shrug:

[mockmonkey]

4. This one?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=214&topic_id=86320

The tricky part is knowing the right Discussion group, that's the problem I always have.

Edit: Finder beat me to it...I blame it on my just waking up!!

[NMDemDist2]

8. you can search all the big forums by choosing

"Big Forums (Conference)" at the top of the pull down list

makes it easier if you know it's one of the big forums and it breaks the results down by forum for you

[mockmonkey]

14. Thanks!

I didn't even realize that was actually a choice.

[proud patriot]

13. That is an important key in searching DU

:hi:

[MissWaverly]

5. the only real luck is when I search on my user name

I don't know why but I have trouble, like say I post a thread like: polar stands on melting ice
about global warming, then I look for it and put that in subject well, no go, but after I pull
it up with my name, there is the subject just as I typed it plain as day.

do an advanced search with your name, put the forum and make if for the last month

works for me

[ginnyinWI]

7. If you start a journal page, you can keep them there.

If you write an important one, click on "add to my journal" and then you'll always be able to access it.

[Cleita]

9. It could have been pulled because it was too infammatory.

Then the search function will not bring it up. Since it was on religion, usually a heated subject, that's probably what happened

[SoCalDem]

11. Yes.. I waste tons of time looking for stuff..We used to be able

to "re-order" by clicking on the author or subject or date (top of the columns) and search the archives that way, so if you knew one of those things you were good to go.. it still works for new threads, but archive searching is hard as hell without it..

It was also a great way to discover neat threads you missed out on (even though you could not respond)..

I hope that someday they can re-activate this feature :)

[AlCzervik]

12. sometimes i google my sn with whatever the topic was and i've

found that works well.