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MarkG wrote:Aushiker probably threatened to bore them to death with his pointless dribble or useless statistics

Woah!

Answer their question with a short question and see if they respond

mikesbytes wrote:Answer their question with a short question and see if they respond

What do you mean by that?

MarkG : Whilst statistics may arouse some of us more than others, at least Aushiker's contributions to this forums are constructive and less ego based than yours.

mikesbytes wrote:Answer their question with a short question and see if they respond

what?

mikesbytes wrote:Answer their question with a short question and see if they respond

?
(Short enough?)

... but back to the original question of the topic.

I think a portion of it is people using the setting under the UCP to auto-subscribe to their own started threads or not. I think by default it isn't enabled. Such posters mightn't get a reminder by way of a "topic reply notification" by e-mail and people's attention spans being what they are, they may simply forget... or not be savvy enough to remember how to browse back to their post. For example, just how many people don't use the 'Search' function?

Certainly, I would prefer some sort of periodical daily/weekly mail notification of updates to a thread, rather as-and-when a new reply is posted since your last visit. I often forget when I've had a flurry of other e-mails that've swept away the notification.

Similarly, I think people replying, and then getting a constant Reply notification in turn as they waste time infront of the keyboard (Hey, we're all guilty of it at times, right?) discourages quality of comments in favour of quantity.

Or you could click "view new posts" 15 times a day .

ldrcycles wrote:Or you could click "view new posts" 15 times a day .

That only really allows for popular threads which 'float to the top'. Anything a little more locally specific or obscure, with an infrequent contributor-ship will likely get washed away by that means also.

casual_cyclist wrote:

mikesbytes wrote:Answer their question with a short question and see if they respond

What do you mean by that?

LOL, see you know I'm still around

ldrcycles wrote:Or you could click "view new posts" 15 times a day .

That's my default ....

The 2nd Womble wrote:Western Australians? 1400 of them recently disappeared.

HappyHumber wrote:

ldrcycles wrote:Or you could click "view new posts" 15 times a day .

That only really allows for popular threads which 'float to the top'.

We're back on bananas are we?

100 a day, dude.

In order to post stuff for sale the rules require 10 valid forum posts to prove a member is not a spam bot. I think I read the rules right.
I am not a spam bot but expect inane comments to get my quota.

ldrcycles wrote:Or you could click "view new posts" 15 times a day .

Just click on view your posts up the top of the page. Those with responses are highlighted. If you use Tap a talk just click on participated.

singlespeedscott wrote:

ldrcycles wrote:Or you could click "view new posts" 15 times a day .

Just click on view your posts up the top of the page. Those with responses are highlighted. If you use Tap a talk just click on participated.

But that only shows threads you've actually posted in, not ones that have just come up or you haven't commented in yet.

JulMass wrote:In order to post stuff for sale the rules require 10 valid forum posts to prove a member is not a spam bot. I think I read the rules right.
I am not a spam bot but expect inane comments to get my quota.

Soul brother.

ldrcycles wrote:

singlespeedscott wrote:

ldrcycles wrote:Or you could click "view new posts" 15 times a day .

Just click on view your posts up the top of the page. Those with responses are highlighted. If you use Tap a talk just click on participated.

But that only shows threads you've actually posted in, not ones that have just come up or you haven't commented in yet.

In that case your better of using Tapatalk on your phone. It lists all the new threads as they are posted from the latest back, regardless of what part of the forum they are posted in.

Haven't seen Derny Driver for a while. What up with that?

bigfriendlyvegan wrote:Haven't seen Derny Driver for a while. What up with that?

What about Kalgrm?

bigfriendlyvegan wrote:Haven't seen Derny Driver for a while. What up with that?

Yeah, maybe "post 'n' bail" is becoming his specialty too.

Hey..Im here
I like to watch

"Look! There goes a Topic!!"

I sometimes register on a forum to ask specific questions about something relevant to the topic of the forum. Things that I want to know about now, but not things that I'm obsessive over and have any intention of becoming part of the forum "community".

I think it's good manners when doing this to acknowledge replies and engage in the conversation, but it doesn't surprise me that not everybody does this. But I expect these phantom thread-starters will come back and read what answers they've got, even if they don't engage any further.

Rude bastards

tim