Spamray,
Thanks. I was chuckling to myself about the relevance of your example. I'm familiar with the 'Show All Posts' functionality and I've used it with much gratitude several times (by clicking through the profile or through the Home/Watched/Unread/.../Logout menu bar.
I think I'm looking for a very specific filter, though, and here's why:
A) I'm lazy.
B) If I want to find a particular user's WTT/WTS or WTB thread I can assume one thing with reasonable safety: the user I'm interested in didn't reply to some other post... rather he started that WTT/WTS or WTB thread. But if that user posted that WTT/WTS or WTB thread say two weeks ago, and in the meantime has posted a number of responses (and some users are very prolific) then there are a ton of posts that I have to hunt through if I go the UserName>Profile>ShowAllPosts route that I've used and that you've reminded me about. And that's because there are two types of posts appearing in set of all posts: replies to threads posted by other users and posts that started threads.
C) Refer to A) above.
My justification: when I think about the data that's floating around in the background, I'm thinking that there would be (in addition to many others) two objects of import here:
1. A post object.
2. A thread object.
What ever a post is, a thread would be a collection of them, probably ordered, and one of its attributes would be the first post, and I'm just using my imagination here, but another of its attributes could be the user responsible for creating the first post (the thread "owner").
So all that said, I guess my questions are:
1. Have I explained myself well enough? I.e. I don't want this idea to be dismissed because I failed to explain its use case or because I sound like some below-average tech user.
2. Kind of a follow up to 1.) directly above, but this would give me just the threads that that user started... which would be subset of all of the posts that a user has created (and the threads that a user has created are sometimes different in nature than the threads that the user is replying to: WTT/S/B threads in particular).
3. Do the attributes of the objects that the UI is built upon support the kind of search I'm suggesting?
4. Is there some other search criteria that can approximate this "thread owner" functionality that I am unaware of? I consider myself an advanced user of all kinds of boolean search protocols, etc. and I've looked through all of the search functionality available to me but nothing is jumping off the page.
Cheers & Thanks for the Reply,
K
