What they want is the ability to do a search by author, Teyon, that's all. Not a search that pulls up every possible mention of that author, just the stuff that author, specifically, has done. IT's a standard function of every forum search ever built, becuase the capability, by itself, is critical to the operation of a forum that has any value -- be it for abuse like they fear, or for actual, practical use. A search for you, in the 3d Modelling forum, pulls up threads that you never even replied to. But you are mentioned in them, for example. And, interestingly enough, such threads are given a higher relevancy. Its probaby great programming, but it's crappy policy crippling the capablitity by design. No one would care if renderosity wasn't that important to them, either. The forums here contain information that goes back many years that is, literally, found no where else. Destroying that functionality reduces the value renderosity has to the members in many way...

thou and I, my friend, can, in the most flunkey world, make, each of us, one non-flunkey, one hero, if we like: that will be two heroes to begin with. (Carlyle)