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To whoever the owner/admin of this (superb) site,
Would I be out of place to suggest anything that may improve the site? I didn't notice a suggestion (in)box lol.How about when a post is answered, that post goes to the top of the list, therefore making all relevent answers up at the top (even posts on page 5 or 6) easily noticable??
I find myself always looking for "my" posts to find an answer, but also re-looking at posts to view answers/suggestions.
If I saw an "older" topic at the top of the list, I would instantly know a new reply was posted.
Now I know this may seem like a "msn comms" way of doing things, but I think it would be so helpful here.
Please tell me to shut up if it's stupid idea, but this has been bugging me to ask this for months.
Well it's now out of my system lol, I asked.
Yoda :o)
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It's been suggested before. I save the posts that I'm interested in, in a Computing Net 'Favorites' folder. Then they're easy to find and I delete them when I've lost interest.
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This is a "catch-22" situation. It's either the old threads (with new posts) gets moved up to push down the new threads, or the new threads push down the old threads. I prefer the latter.
i_XpUser
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I dont mind it the way it is... But I would like to see the BB email me when a reply is made to a post I made or replied to.
Junk Internet Explorer,
Get Firefox! You'll be happy you did.
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I've seen on other forums where a two or three year old thread is brought back to the top by someone posting a reply. I'm sure after so long, the original poster has lost interest, so what's the point.
That's just one reason why I'd prefer to keep things the way they are here on computing.net.
Please let us know if you found someone's advice to be helpful.
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Dude
If you go to the top of this screen you will see an advertisment that says
Track this message
With My Computing.net
All you have to do is click on that and then when you log on go to my computing.net in the far left colum, and you can track any post you have left.
I am not a member of, or affiliated with this site, but have found that this is the way to do what you want to do.
I hope I have helped you.
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I vote for no change.
It ain't purrfect but it's WAY netter than most.
M2
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
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I concur M2.
The search suits me fine if I need to look for answers.Lessons learnt the hard way are not easily forgotten.
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Maybe you could give an option so only the person who started the topic can bump it, if they wanted to. That way if they still need additional help, they wouldn't have to start a new post? :/
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By the way, "whoever" would be "Mr Justin Weber".
And our moderator would be "Kevin The Tech Dude".
Please let us know if you found someone's advice to be helpful.
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I would also like to see a feature to send an email whan a reply has been posted. This would be useful, as I would not have to keep checking in the My Computing folder.
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Simply make http://computing.net/cgi-bin/mycomputing.pl the URL link you use to come here.
On that same page you can select to have all posts that you Reply to be tracked there in addition to any that you post.
From there you can rename the subject to your liking and you can also remove any you no longer want to track.
It's a good tool. 200 post maximum. When I get close to 200 I dump them into an Excel spreadsheet. I then convert the cell values to links and then place a shortcut to it in my Favorites folder so I can easily access those that I use for references.
Using this unique feature makes it so that you will want the new threads at the top of the forum so that you don't have to scan through posts that you have already determined to be of interest or not.
Since I have already determined the posts I am interested in then bumping one that I am not interested in to the top now requires me to re-read it to see if I am interested stealing from my time of reading new posts.
Is this my opinion? No, not really, it is the way the tools can work for you and me.
Thanks Justin,
Bryan
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Many fair comments their people. I'll have to agree, there are tools on here that make thimgs easier, I just understand many people who need help, never use the tools here, or rarely use them, maybe because they don't know how to use them to their advantage.
Bryco's post is certainly a technical way of doing things, even I struggled to understand it all. After all, it's clearly seen that many people never do a search, nor use the designed forums for their problem, even 90% (pure guess by the (left open) threads here) don't send an email/reply that their problem was fixed.
Simply put, the xp forum has the fastest response time for any problem, even when politely told they should put their post in x's forum.
Anyway, As is always agreed, computing.net is the best solution site on the internet.
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Where is KTTD anyway? I tried to send him a privage message and got an error saying the user didn't exist...
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