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That’s actually what I do, refreshing the results page every now and again at will. Just to add to that the following inconveniences that one should consider if they use the search function for this purpose:
- It might be best to delimit the message age to a few days, to focus on near-time quotes.
- Normally, sort by most recent topic first.
- Search seems to work on complete words, not partial. That means that if your user name is quoted with and @ or a 's, you won’t (I believe) get a hit. In order to overcome this, you can place several search keywords in the search function, separated by spaces, and using the "match any words" option (i.e. @DdmrDdmr DdmrDdmr ddmrddmr's DdmrDdmr, ddmr2, DdmrDdmr's).
- The search function sometimes does weird things when simply refreshing the results page (which is what I do). Every now and again, it returns results that are completely unrelated to the parameters. When it does so, you need to go back to the search parameter screen, and change something before hitting the search button again.
- This method depends on one actually refreshing the results page at will.
Edit: Altered search string example and separated by spaced, not coma (coma would be part of the search string)