Ask Dr LJ

[drwex]

OK, I'm new to this thing and I'm sure there are lots of functions I don't know about, but here's one I'd think was obvious yet I can't find it. Is it possible to find all comments that a person has made? Blog engines like Movable Type have these kinds of features but I can't find one here. Heck I can't even find my own comments, which would be useful for following ongoing discussions.

Comments

[ckd]

You can find all of your comments, or all comments on your LJ. You can't find all comments by someone else on other LJs.

http://www.livejournal.com/tools/recent_comments.bml

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Um, but that's only the most recent 50, not a long-term useful comment-searching tool.

[ckd]

Yeah. Long-term search falls back on keeping my comment notification emails.

[drwex]

See, I do keep those emails (yay Google and lots of free space).
But that's not what I want. The inspiration for this is dpolicar. He's a very intelligent and thoughtful fellow. At a physical party I will often contrive to stand near him so as to hear what he has to say even in conversations in which I don't directly participate. Recently he started a series of "owning my words" posts in which he provides pointers to some of his commentary in others' LJs. So I asked myself - "If I wanted to read all comments dpolicar made yesterday how would I do that?" And there seems to be no way to achieve that.

[heinleinfan.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking that LJ does not allow for this.

I could be just talking outta my ass, though.

Most likely, one of the downloadable LJ clients would be more likely to have this feature.

(Again, I have no real clue what I'm saying, but it seems familiar...)

[heinleinfan.livejournal.com]

See what I mean? Talking outta my ass with no clue what I'm saying.

What I want to know now though is how did ckd know about that link? I've never seen it either!

[ckd]

I don't remember where I found out about it; it might have been from a discussion about one of the paid account benefits being that you see more comments on that page.

[skreeky]

I heard about it word-of-mouth and I have it bookmarked because I can't find it just by surfing.