Lyric-I can finally get my nut check now! Oh and I beg so buy my kid presents

[Maverick1987]

By the way, and I've asked this question before.  I've never noticed the lyrical primitive hanging around Skins's island to contribute to any discussion on any issues; she just goes there to get money, nothing more than that.  Has anyone else noticed any differently?

No, not that I recall.  I was actually thinking about that earlier.  I am not a star member over there, so I cannot search for all posts from a particular poster

[Karin]

I have never seen her do anything other than beg.  Not lend support, or discussion, or anything.  Why does anyone contribute to this con game? 

[franksolich]

I have never seen her do anything other than beg.  Not lend support, or discussion, or anything.  Why does anyone contribute to this con game?

Instead of checking her out, they probably figure, well, because she's posting here, she's one of us, and don't give it a second thought.

That's why I wish moles didn't have such qualms about asking for money from the primitives; I wish they would, but their morality and ethics discourages them.

[FunkyZero]

No, not that I recall.  I was actually thinking about that earlier.  I am not a star member over there, so I cannot search for all posts from a particular poster

What you CAN do is:

for example, let's say the primitives name is "dumbass-lefty"

Go to google

in the search index, use :        "dumbass-lefty" site:democraticunderground.com

modify the initial string as needed. for instance:       "dumbass-lefty" "obama is God" site:democraticunderground.com

putting a qualifier in quotes means you want an exact return on that phrase. leave the quote marks out of the string if you want more general results, keeping in mind spaces in a phrase or name

It's rudimentary, but it does return plenty of good info.

I swore I was gonna buy a star after the restriction lifted, but I'm still waffling

[Maverick1987]

What you CAN do is:

for example, let's say the primitives name is "dumbass-lefty"

Go to google

in the search index, use :        "dumbass-lefty" site:democraticunderground.com

modify the initial string as needed. for instance:       "dumbass-lefty" "obama is God" site:democraticunderground.com

putting a qualifier in quotes means you want an exact return on that phrase. leave the quote marks out of the string if you want more general results, keeping in mind spaces in a phrase or name

It's rudimentary, but it does return plenty of good info.

I swore I was gonna buy a star after the restriction lifted, but I'm still waffling

Thanks, FZ

I'm aware of that approach, which also returns all of the "in response to dumbass-lefty" posts, if I recall correctly.  I believe star membership at DU allows you to see itemized posts per user just like here at CC.

[franksolich]

What you CAN do is:

You know, I've done all that before, but it's never worked well for me.

I dread nadining a primitive (rather than "searching" here) because no matter how precisely, how narrowly, I give the term, I've always ended up with a lot of junk as "results," much of which has nothing to do with the primitive.  No matter how narrow the phraseage I use.

And there's another issue; try for example, nadining "cali site: democraticunderground," and you'll get damned little if anything at all on the bitter old Vermontese cali primitive, which is the objective of the search.

At the same time one gets literally millions of results for "California," a popular topic over there, based upon the "cali."

[FunkyZero]

You know, I've done all that before, but it's never worked well for me.

I dread nadining a primitive (rather than "searching" here) because no matter how precisely, how narrowly, I give the term, I've always ended up with a lot of junk as "results," much of which has nothing to do with the primitive.  No matter how narrow the phraseage I use.

And there's another issue; try for example, nadining "cali site: democraticunderground," and you'll get damned little if anything at all on the bitter old Vermontese cali primitive, which is the objective of the search.

At the same time one gets literally millions of results for "California," a popular topic over there, based upon the "cali."

Frank,
try it like this (with he quotes)      "cali" site:democraticunderground.com

However, as you guys mentioned, it all returns as a mashed up mess and it takes quite a bit of sorting. if you remember something in particular, you can add additional keywords before the site: qualifier such as     "cali" "George Bush" site:democraticunderground.com

the issue is that it's all just words soup to google, it doesn't know who the OP or whatever.. it simply looks for the word text.
But yes, still very rudimentary