diff --git a/pyfstat/helper_functions.py b/pyfstat/helper_functions.py
index 1a776368ffce7a594bd1ae3a3e4cbf5b52ff7abc..5c011fd91fda3a2785ee596d7c5b85a14e00baf0 100644
--- a/pyfstat/helper_functions.py
+++ b/pyfstat/helper_functions.py
@@ -38,16 +38,18 @@ def set_up_command_line_arguments():
     parser.add_argument("-v", "--verbose", action="store_true",
                         help="Increase output verbosity [logging.DEBUG]")
     parser.add_argument("-q", "--quite", action="store_true",
-                        help="Decrease output verbosity [logging.WARNGING]")
-    parser.add_argument("-vq", "--very_quite", action="store_true",
-                        help="Increase output verbosity [logging.ERROR]")
+                        help="Decrease output verbosity [logging.WARNING]")
     parser.add_argument("--no-interactive", help="Don't use interactive",
                         action="store_true")
-    parser.add_argument("-c", "--clean", help="Don't use cached data",
-                        action="store_true")
-    parser.add_argument("-u", "--use-old-data", action="store_true")
-    parser.add_argument('-s', "--setup-only", action="store_true")
-    parser.add_argument("--no-template-counting", action="store_true")
+    parser.add_argument("-c", "--clean", action="store_true",
+                        help="Force clean data, never use cached data")
+    fu_parser = parser.add_argument_group(
+        'follow-up options', 'Options related to MCMCFollowUpSearch')
+    fu_parser.add_argument('-s', "--setup-only", action="store_true",
+                           help="Only generate the setup file, don't run")
+    fu_parser.add_argument(
+        "--no-template-counting", action="store_true",
+        help="No counting of templates, useful if the setup is predefined")
     parser.add_argument(
         '-N', type=int, default=3, metavar='N',
         help="Number of threads to use when running in parallel")
diff --git a/pyfstat/mcmc_based_searches.py b/pyfstat/mcmc_based_searches.py
index 3da12b601920b9336acaa6a328664f9808acef8b..f3b79b2d19c5ae8a990a09e3b56b623350dc050e 100644
--- a/pyfstat/mcmc_based_searches.py
+++ b/pyfstat/mcmc_based_searches.py
@@ -1224,10 +1224,6 @@ class MCMCSearch(core.BaseSearchClass):
         return d
 
     def _check_old_data_is_okay_to_use(self):
-        if args.use_old_data:
-            logging.info("Forcing use of old data")
-            return True
-
         if os.path.isfile(self.pickle_path) is False:
             logging.info('No pickled data found')
             return False