FAQ: How to ignore threads?

[RoadRaven]

I have lots and lots on my ignore list - probably hundreds...

I would love to do what Mimi does, but there are so many threads and each page I open to find new posts takes time to load... you see, I am on dial-up and the fastest speed I connect at when home is 16.8kbps

Therefore, when I log in, I want to have to load as few pages as possible. I ignore some of the gear and health and nutrition stuff, most of the running stuff, alot of the rides specific to American states.

When I log in I click on "New Posts" and that is how I find what I haven't read since I was last logged in.

In fact, I would tell you how many I am ignoring, but that page will not load for me!!!

[mimitabby]

ah, Dial Up!! Road Raven, you're right, I am so spoiled!

[Brandi]

Wow! i am amazed that you would have 550. Where they that bad? And blocking seems so strange I can't imagine blocking anyone here. But my dh has done it on a few sites he has been on so I guess there must be reasons for it.

[RoadRaven]

Hey there Brandi - for me its not that the posts/threads are bad

Its just that sometimes the opening post will tell me if I am likely to be interested in that thread.

For example - I don't "do" specific diets, or weight loss programmes like weight watchers - so those discussions only hold little interest for me. Having been here a while now, I know that often successes like weight loss appear in other threads, so I can congratulate members on their success and tenacity and perserverence in those.

If the thread was titled something like "Does WW work for you?"... well, I would have nothing to add to a thread about whether weight watchers works for me (as I have never belonged) and have no particular passionate interest in knowing how many grams of this or that someone else is eating - I can also add nothing constructive or useful to the enquiry and ensuing discussion... so I pop the thread on "ignore"

I assume this process is the same for JoBob

As you say, there are no "bad" threads here or "nasty" posts...
This is a fantastic forum.

[jobob]

Basically, what RoadRaven said is the way I feel as well.

There are threads here that just do not interest me.

Many of them, I simply do not open, same as what MimiTabby suggested.

Sometimes there's a thread that does not interest me, but it ends up being a very active thread. If when I click on "New Posts" and it repeatedly winds up near the top of the list of threads w new posts, then I put it on ignore.

It's much more convenient to scan down the list of New Posts when its not cluttered with threads that simply don't interest me. Especially when I haven't read the list for a few days.

- Jo.

[wannaduacentury]

I have lots and lots on my ignore list - probably hundreds...

I would love to do what Mimi does, but there are so many threads and each page I open to find new posts takes time to load... you see, I am on dial-up and the fastest speed I connect at when home is 16.8kbps

Therefore, when I log in, I want to have to load as few pages as possible. I ignore some of the gear and health and nutrition stuff, most of the running stuff, alot of the rides specific to American states.

When I log in I click on "New Posts" and that is how I find what I haven't read since I was last logged in.

In fact, I would tell you how many I am ignoring, but that page will not load for me!!!

I've got dial up too RR, I have dsl at work though, so some things I look up there instead. I just skim over any posts I made to see if there are any replies and then to new posts that catch my eye. Don't have time to look at everything, but it's fun and I love TE. Jenn