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No more paranoid than having searching your posts turned off

Huh? What do you mean?

Forum search, put "MikeJ" in the "Search specific user?" box, you get "That user has disabled searching through his or her posts."

While it's annoying to be unable to locate threads based on the posts of some authors (given we have only one word to work with, it often helps to narrow by an author that you are sure posted in that thread), I understand why the PTB at Rendo decided to give people the option of making their post unsearchable (by the unwashed masses of the membership, as I'm reasonably certain the restriction won't apply to mods etc).