Topics In Which This Member Has Posted

I think it would be helpful to have this link on everyone's profile page so that you can see the same view that the member would when they click on the "Topics I Have Posted In" link.  I think this would have an advantage over simply tracking a member for a number of reasons:

• Tracking doesn't do anything to give visibility into historical posts
• Sometimes I'm only interested in checking out a user's past posts as a one-off
• I'd be interested in something more passive than tracking that doesn't flood me with alerts

I've also taken the opportunity to correct the grammar on the name of the link.  Sometimes it's the little things.

the lists would be too long

I'm not suggesting anyone has to read all of the content, it would just be a useful means of locating some of a member's other posts the same was I can do for myself.

Seconded.

I completely agree.  Other message boards on other sites have ways of looking at another member's list of posts, and I've always wished that we had that feature here.  It's a great way to get a good look at someone that (as TheGrobe said) you may not want to track, but you're interested in seeing what they've said in the past.  Since we already have the link for ourselves, it shouldn't take hardly any programing tweaks at all to make that link available to others the same way we can see each others game logs and stats.  Maybe until they do that we can all post our own links to that list on our home pages.  I wonder if that would work.   

Edit:  Nope, I don't think so.  The link only says "my" so if you try to click on it you'd probably see your own list rather than mine. 

No, unfortunately, despite the fact that I see my topics via this link:

http://www.chess.com/forum/my_posted_in_topics.html

when you click it, it will bring up the topics you've posted in, not me.

You know what I learned from that? That I made a lot of dumb topics and didn't know how to track a topic!

Type a username into the forum search box :)

http://www.chess.com/forum/search.html?keyword=rich

comes up with: reasons why rich is awesome 

That only gives you results for forums in which a user has been mentioned by another member, the search function seems to exclude both the post headers and the contents of quotes.

If I click on a players name here in the forum the page that opens shows all the recent forum history for that player. Is this not what you wanted ? (the last sentance sounds belligerent but thats not how it's intended)

Thirded?

podge52, that only shows forum topics started by that member. It does not show that person's posts in other people's topics, which is the feature TheGrobe is suggesting.

Ah, no probs.

may that be too much nosey?

It is actually a question, not sarcasm pretended

Well, all of the content in the forums is public -- it's just a user specific means of presenting it.

oki, fair enough

good suggestion. 

Support - I'd like to see what I've posted without having to track each thread

It will also make it easier for crazy stalker annoying types to follow you around.  Sometimes I've actually been happy to know that someone can't follow my posts in every thread.  But I guess that's up to you guys...

I don't have any seriously valuable argument against it.  Would be nice to decide who can track you even.

dgee - You can already see what you've posted.