NicoleG
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 Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 3:20 pm Post subject: Keeping up with read, but not really read, threads |
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Does anyone have suggestions on how to keep up with which threads you have not read when WP resets it every night? I know to at least avoid logging out to keep things from resetting (which I also find ridiculous and a bit dangerous), but the nightly reset is about to drive me bonkers. I really hate logging in the next day and not knowing how far back I should go to look for any new/updated posts or comments that I have missed yet are already marked as read.
The only suggestion I can figure is to write down or somehow log down the last time I was logged in and then compare that to the dates/times in the "last post" column.
Most of this is me kind of griping about it, I guess. I've never known a forum to mark everything as read arbitrarily like this one does. It's just extra work having to track my own last time to read things, and just seems silly that the default is to mark stuff as read when it hasn't been. |
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MrXxx
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| Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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Good grief!  How many threads are you trying to keep track of?
I don't mean to sound facetious. I just don't understand why one would need to keep that close track of enough posts for this to be a major problem.
I'm sure you have your reasons. Just curious I guess.
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NicoleG
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| Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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I only read three boards, really: In-Depth Adult, Social Skills, and General Autism.
It's the General Autism board that is making me go cross-eyed, because in just the few evening hours when I'm doing other things besides sitting at my computer, so many new posts are created and comments made just before the system resets. It's just annoying to me having a functionality that is utterly useless because it keeps resetting every night.
Like I said, I think I kind of answered my own question regarding how to proceed, and so it's mostly just me griping a bit.  |
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MrXxx
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| Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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I guess the reason I asked is because I used to try to keep track of every thread I participated in, right after I first signed up. I watched the email alerts and every time a new one came in, I'd go check it and respond if I felt like it. Well it didn't take long before I wasn't able to unglue myself from the keyboard. 
Seriously, it got so bad I actually asked to have my account suspended for a while so I could figure out a way to get it under control.
Now I filter all the emails to a folder where I don't see them, and check manually for what I can remember. I figure if I can't remember a thread, it's probably not that important for me to keep track of.
I'm not saying my way is good for anyone else. Just that it has helped me avoid spending so much time here when I have other important things to do.
Not that it works that well. But still, I'm getting a heck of a lot more done elsewhere now. 
If I were able to track threads the way you're talking about, I'd never sleep! 
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NicoleG
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| Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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| I've already started marking threads as "no longer watch" once I've lost interest in them, and there are plenty of threads that I have no interest in just based on the subject line. I do utilize the "Mark all Read" button often, once I've exhausted my look-over of a particular board. It's that period of time between the last time I did that on a board and when that overnight reset takes place that really bugs me, because it causes threads to "get lost" in my way of trying to process the boards. |
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