Marking topics "Read"

[NavComm]

Hello Mike and mods,

Sorry if this has been asked and answered before, I did a search and couldn't find it.

I'm wondering when I visit "show unread topics since last visit" if I want to mark some of those topics 'read' but leave others to go back to, is there a method to do that?

 

[Burrows]

Not that I know of.  If you click the Notify button you will be notified of new replies to the thread though.

 

[NavComm]

OK, thanks Kyle, didn't think so but you never know until you ask!

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

Kyle is right, you can either mark them all read, or read them each individually.

 

[NavComm]

Thanks Mike, that's pretty much what I've been doing. I find some topics I want to follow when new posts are there and many others I'd like to select as read or just not of interest to me so I don't follow the new posts there.

I don't know if it's even reasonable for you to consider but here's what in a perfect world I'd like to see:

When I view show unread posts, I'd like to be able to choose threads I want to follow without getting an email every time someone posts to it, but yet have a mechanism to inform me when I return that topics I read have been updated.

It works great on the ones I have posted to, but there are lots of threads I follow that I don't post to for the simple reason that I find the topics and the posters adding the discussion interesting but don't feel that I can personally contribute to the thread for various reasons.

Like I say, I don't know if it's possible, just a suggestion for you to wrap your brain around!

 

[Gunner98]

If you are interested in following a topic, add a comment or an opinion - however short this will let you single it out.  Similarly, I would like to "unreply" when a topic gets off on a big tangent.  However, then I might miss others' novel, humorous attempts to bring the threads back in line.

Flagging individual post or unreplying would make the database very complicated with over 7000 members each making a few selections.  Try a pad and pencil to record those of interest, or use a Wordpad file.

 

[NavComm]

Gunner good suggestion and it's pretty much what I do (make note).

Some threads are very interesting to read and learn from but I wouldn't want to add a comment just for the sake of commenting. In fact, sometimes jumping into a thread with little or no knowledge just seems to change the entire flow of the thread and for me, ruins what was a very interesting dialogue.

I just thought if it was possible to mark the ones a person wants to follow, without adding to, would be great.