User Comment Search

[vickyblueeyez]

Title
User Comment Search

Short, concise description of the idea
The ability to search all comments by a user in a community and community post.

Full description of the ideaSimilar to /?poster=username that allows you to find all posts by a user in a community, I'd like to have the ability to find all COMMENTS by username in a community or certain

Comments

[scien]

Yes PLEASE.

[just_chiara]

An ordered list of problems/issues involved
Stalking made easy?

I'm all for being able to search one's own comments in a community, but anybody's? I don't think so.

[scien]

How about for mods of the community only? Like adding a filter to the Recent Comments page.

[siderea]

I'd like to see this feature something the user being searched can turn on or off in their account prefs. "Allow people to search for comments by me in communities [y/n]" and default it on.

Because a lot of people wouldn't care, and indeed would prefer that others be able to do that. I'd be pleased to be able to say in a discussion in my own journal, "Oh, yeah, I wrote something about that in a comment over in $Comm but I don't remember where, exactly", and if the other person were interested, they could search it out, and I wouldn't have to go to the effort of finding it myself, when maybe they're not that interested. But, yes, if someone is having a problem and wants to deter it, they should be able to turn that feature off.

NOTE: I strongly disrecommend any feature which returns or searches all comments by a user across comms, because that reveals where a user is hanging out/active, and is a different and more problematic class of info reveal.

[siderea]

This is an incredibly powerful and necessary tool for the case of "so-and-so wrote this great thing as a comment in this 29 page lj_news post, and I want to find it again." For big, high-volume comms, ctrl-f is not adequate to find a comment by a given user in a given post.