- Vasheeth
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Posted by: Shai Hulud
I've seen many people complain about the lack of a search feature, but having searched for old threads myself, I've come up with something that may help. What follows is a list of things to do when looking for your post:
1.) Try to remember the name of the thread you are looking for (DUH!).
2.) Estimate the date that you posted it. This lets you know how far in the Forum you need to go back.
3.) Once you have the date in mind, try to remember whether it was a long-lasting thread with many posts, or a short-lived thread with few. If it was long-lasting, the last post in the thread will most likely be dated days after you posted it (last post-dates are listed by the threads). If short-lived, the last post will be dated the same day you posted the thread, or a day or two after. Also, long-lasting threads have larger post-counts, so you can narrow it down to what sort of thread you are looking for by simply looking at the numbers.
4.) Remember what Forum you posted it on. This is key in two ways:
-If you look in the wrong Forum, you won't find it (duh!).
-Different Forums have a different amount of daily posts. For instance, The Septagon and The Underground accumulate, usually, about 1.5 pages of threads per day (even less for the Septagon), whereas New Mombassa, The Library, and The Flood can recieve about 3+ per day. Knowing this can shorten the time it takes to find a post greatly, because it lets you know how many pages you can skip when looking at the old thread-names.
5.) Skip pages! Don't go page-by-page! That sucks. As I said, depending on the forum, you can skip different amounts of pages.
6.) Watch the dates of last-posts of threads carefully. When page-skimming, make sure you don't start going past what date the last post probably was.
7.) If it was related to a news-story on the B.net Homepage, look up the news story and see what date it was posted. That helps you narrow down the dates a little bit more.
8.) If it was a short-lived post, you probably shouldn't bother to bring it back up. Some posts are short-lived for a reason.... Also, don't bump stupid posts or posts that you know will just end up in a flame-fest.... That will just put a stinky aura around you, and the Mods will start to watch you closer (you won't like that).
Perhaps some people may think it commen sense, but there's my little guide. I may add more stuff into it when I think of more. Also, feel free to reply to this thread and offer your own advice in searching for old -blam!-.
Edit: Score! Sticky number 2 for me!
It's also thread of interest for the septagon, even better!