# Solicitando 4 herramientas de moderación (principalmente satisfechas por la búsqueda avanzada)

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/requesting-4-moderation-tools-mostly-satisfied-by-advanced-search/94680
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [14 Agosto, 2018 09:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/requesting-4-moderation-tools-mostly-satisfied-by-advanced-search/94680 "2018-08-14T09:40:11Z")
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### Author: ![Ubik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ubik/32/89095_2.png) [@Ubik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ubik)
#### Post date: [20 Agosto, 2018 14:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/requesting-4-moderation-tools-mostly-satisfied-by-advanced-search/94680/7 "2018-08-20T14:23:56Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> 1. I’m not at all convinced that “duplicating content is better than a link” – also you can create a staff topic to track certain patterns of misbehavior, or even a particular user. The only exception to this rule is if it’s spammers, where the original content gets deleted.

Patterns of behaviour by a user are best described through evidence, not opinion - “MemberX gets overly aggressive when discussing chicken nuggets” is opinion, whereas 3 or 4 of his posts where he’s doing this and copied in tell their own tale.

Actual posts provide a better aide-mémoire, also permit pattern-recognition for words used, arguments made, etc., which are useful if I suspect new user MemberZ is former suspended MemberX.

This is not hypothetical, word-use is a good way to detect someone returning for a second round of the same behaviour early on.

A topic that bloats due to some kind of problem can end up with some posts in one or more PMs, where they are then inaccessible to anyone not invited, if I used that method to both remove the content and request the user to not do it again; other posts may be deleted (requiring click to the link, 2nd click to open deleted), and further posts may end up being split into a new topic.

Aside from the need to click-through, this disjoints the flow of conversation and makes it harder to follow, which is why I copy conversations in directly using quote/screen captures.

If clone/copy cannot be done, I don’t see me ceasing the previous practice of copy-pasting my documentation in favour of links, because that’s storing up work for the future, and where I _have_ done that rather than copy in quotes, I ended up resenting my former slackerdom, when it was necessary to go over the material again.

Replacing documentation with a narrative based on perception doesn’t appeal, either.

So, copy-paste will remain my solution, which is time-consuming. C’est la vie. 😃

> [@codinghorror](#):
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> 1. install the staff notes plugin; that’s exactly what it is for

Thanks, it should do most of what I want, I have passed the request along to the admin of the forum I moderate. 👍

> [@codinghorror](#):
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> 1. Use advanced search `https://meta.discourse.org/?status=unlist`

Thanks. 👍

Where would I have found this information? If it’s not somewhere obvious that I overlooked (which is always possible), can the link be placed on the Dashboard?

I think other forum moderators may find this useful, I don’t know what percentage of Discourse forum moderators follow this forum.

> [@codinghorror](#):
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> 1. Use advanced search `https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=before%3A2013-12-01%20%40codinghorror%20order%3Alatest_topic` – substitute the date and user you need

That’s great, thank you, but:

1. Is unexpected to be able to search posts _without entering a search term_ – because that cannot be done from the search box at the top of the page on a Discourse forum, nor is it normal behaviour for most search - you need a term to search _for_, and who it was posted _by_ is the refinement, not the other way round.

2. To do this requires:

- be at Profile
- open Search as a page
- type in full or partial name of user
- select them from drop-down menu
- scroll to calendar (remembering which date the person first posted from their profile), enter date
- _still can only sort results by Latest Post/Latest Topic_
- scroll down through results, using browser’s scroll bar, so not able to use the convenience of the scroll within the page found on topics
- no immediate way of knowing if the “50+” means you’re going to have to scroll down 51 topics, or 251, and if you want to get a feel for their posts by reading them in chronological order, that’s a long scroll down, and a slow read back up.

It’s doable, for sure. 👍

_But_, I hope you understand why I was hoping for a simple “Oldest first” option, right on the Activity page. 😃

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