- CrazzySnipe55
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Posted by: Xplode441
Posted by: dazarobbo
OK. Now what about all my posts I made yesterday? Or the day before that? Or the week before? Month before? Year before? How will I keep track of who replies to me there?
Should I keep them all open in a browser tab? Is is lazy not to, because I think my RAM might disagree with you there.
I have no problem with OP's idea, especially if it could be disabled.
I'm not referring to Posts, I'm referring to threads created by users.
I don't understand why posts need notifications either, unless you want your ego stroked when someone quotes you, however, it may be important to some people.
If you're having a conversation with someone, I don't see people just leaving the thread and doing something else for twenty minutes then coming back and saying, "I'll pick this conversation back up!" Plus when someone replies to your post, the thread is bumped back to the top of the forum board. Some people may forget, but I remember what threads I've seen before and I'll remember if I've posted in them before, and I check them out to see what new post has been submitted.Could you be more unnecessarily condescending? Let's go over the BASE reason for a forum, shall we? I'll give you a hint, it's to promote discussion around a common topic.
If everyone just replies to the OP, that's not excessively interesting discussion, now is it? So that means people must reply to other responses. But then how can you respond to people who respond to you if you don't know they responded to you?
You aren't just going to check your quotes to "stroke your ego". I would say that 80% of the time I get quoted is not just a "this" or a "QFT". And how can you even ATTEMPT to guess when you'll "pick this conversation back up" considering forums are basically, for lack of a better phrase because I'm tired and don't feel like racking my brain, "turn based" discussion. In other words, not "real time" discussion. So sometimes you have no option but to leave for 20 minutes and check back later.
I don't get why you're trying to make things like wanting to return to a thread to continue discussion and speaking in a conversation with large-ish intervals in between posts as if its an alien concept to forum-ing or, more specifically and appropriately, BNet.