I guess that brings up another issue, usually when I search for posts by a user I want to see what they have posted. Showing me a bunch of threads that they *might* have posted in (if my name is Bob and a poster is Bob Ross I'll get Bob Ross' as well) is not what I'm concerned with. That and on mult-page threads who knows where Bob's post is? So what I am proposing to do, simply because it annoys the heck out of me, is to:
- Fix the search by exact user name to use UserIDs, because searching exactly for a username will NOT provide intended results due to the text field stuffing.
- Have the resulting search page show threads they have participated in, but when you click on it, it goes directly to their first post in the thread.
If anyone else has done this please let me know so I don't duplicate any code!