"Mark This Forum Read" Function/Link

[Alphawolf]

I can't live without tabs now.

It's *soooo* much more efficient in every way.

I've also seen Mozilla [firefox mostly] climb to 10% overall in my stats right below IE6.

Pretty impressive IMO.

[RawAlex]

I view it as forums, and more around as I see fit. I avoid the "new" function so I don't have to read or look at stuff that doesn't interest me.

Alex

[Alphawolf]

Originally posted by RawAlex
I view it as forums, and more around as I see fit. I avoid the "new" function so I don't have to read or look at stuff that doesn't interest me.

Alex

It seems you must view new threads and decide whether they are worth clicking or not either way.

I don't see how viewing old threads with no new discussions is better, but it's mostly just habit how one reads a board.

[Cleo]

I was thinking the same thing when I was reading Alex's post.

I only want to be presented with a page of choices that I haven't seen before.

[Trev]

Originally posted by Greenguy
For those of you that use the "View New Posts" function, how do you do it?

Not that I'm an idiot & don't know how it works, but I just clicked on it & there's 2 pages of new posts for me. Would you go to the bottom of page 2?

Once you read a thread, do you click back or go to the index & click the "View New Posts" link again?

That's almost exactly what I do... The first time I read the board each day there is usually 3 pages, sometimes 2. I go to page 3, scan the threads from the bottom up. If I see one that looks interesting I glance over at the author, and some times the number of posts. I seldom pay attention to which forum it's in.

Then I hit the back (thumb) button on my mouse, and do page 2, then page 1... then hit refresh to see if there are any new posts (I check the time of the last post first), then I 'mark all forums read'..... it's not as complicated as it sounds.... really

[Greenguy]

WOW! I am amazed at a lot of your board reading habits

When I read, I go from forum to forum. I click the little green arrow on the left of the thread so that I am taken to the 1st unread post in that thread. After I post or read the thread, I click the little "go" box on the bottom left to go back to that forum. When I am done with thr forum, I click the "mark forum read" link, which clears out all the threads & marks them as read & takes me back to the board's index.

I then go to the next forum that had unread posts & continue doing that until each forum is "read" & has no new posts.

I can only think of 2 or 3 times after I was away form the board for 48 hours or so that I have more than 1 page of threads with new replies on any forum (and usualy it's just this forum)

And like I said before, we have the board set up so that you don't have to look at the things that don't interest you, so unless your one of the obsessive-compulsive types that has to read each & every post, why not just read the forums that pertain to you & not bother with those that don't?

Why not read new threads a handful at a time so that you don't become lost on busy days?

Seems to me that a few of you are doing to much work & possibly confusing yoursleves

[RawAlex]

aw, cleo, at times I am borderline ADD... I don't read all the new threads all at the same time, I often wander off on a quest long before that would happen. So I nibble and graze. Since the board is nice enough to tell me which sections have new posts in them, I can just go in at my leisure and check out the list of threads for the section and see if any of it is interesting.

No reason to be trapped in the "I gotta read all the new stuff before it gets old" thing for me.

:-)

Alex

[Trev]

Originally posted by Greenguy

And like I said before, we have the board set up so that you don't have to look at the things that don't interest you, so unless your one of the obsessive-compulsive types that has to read each & every post, why not just read the forums that pertain to you & not bother with those that don't?

Why not read new threads a handful at a time so that you don't become lost on busy days?

Seems to me that a few of you are doing to much work & possibly confusing yoursleves

In my case, I never know what might be interesting until I see it. I don't read every thread by a long shot. I'd say 1/3 on a good day (and I left out that, yes I do use the arrow to go to the first unread post) I don't even read all of the posts in a thread sometimes.

Look at it this way.... next time someone bitches about getting their posts moved to the spam board. You now have proof that even more people see their thread than it seems..... even if we don't click on it. |rasta|

[Alphawolf]

Originally posted by Greenguy

Why not read new threads a handful at a time so that you don't become lost on busy days?

There are usually 2 pages of threads when I go to read.

I consider it part of work to read the board.

It's how I start each morning.