What search operators or filters are especially useful for power users (e.g., author, flair, time)?

Reddit's search system supports a set of operators that allow for highly targeted queries far beyond simple keyword matching. These operators are documented in various Reddit Help discussions and enable power users to find content with surgical precision. The **author:** operator restricts results to posts or comments made by a specific username. For example, searching "author:username topic" returns all posts by that user mentioning the topic. This is particularly useful for finding previous advice from a trusted contributor or for auditing someone's posting history in a specific context. The **flair:** operator filters posts by their post flair label within a community. Searching "flair:Discussion" in a community that uses flairs will return only posts tagged with that label. This is invaluable in large communities where flair is used to categorize content into news, questions, guides, memes, and other types. The **subreddit:** operator, as noted earlier, restricts results to a specific community regardless of where you are searching from. The **title:** operator limits search matching to the post title only, excluding the body text — useful when you remember the exact wording of a post title but not its full content. The **self:** operator distinguishes text posts from link posts. **self:true** returns only text-based (self) posts, while **self:false** returns only link posts, image posts, and videos. The **selftext:** operator lets you search within the body of text posts specifically, which is useful when a discussion's key content was in the post body rather than the title. Boolean operators **AND**, **OR**, and **NOT** allow you to combine or exclude terms. Exact-phrase searching using quotation marks forces Reddit to match the precise string rather than individual keywords. Time-based filtering is available as a dropdown on the results page (hour, day, week, month, year, all time) and is particularly important for research tasks where you need content from a specific period. According to Gizmodo's Reddit tips guide, you can also use the **site:** operator to find posts linking to a specific external website, which is useful for tracking how a particular article or domain has been discussed across Reddit.