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How I read web forums

edited 2012-12-13 01:29:11 in Webspace
Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

My current algorithm is that in one "session" of forum activity, I read and respond to (if applicable) all the new posts in all the threads I am interested in until I can go back to the main forum view and see that they have no new posts.


Since I don't load all threads with new posts in new tabs, this means going back to the main forum view a few times...at which point those threads might have more new posts.


Advantages: won't miss stuff.  comprehensiveness and completion.


Disadvantages: time-unlimited, can take forever.

Comments

  • yea i make potions if ya know what i mean

    I did not even know until I read this that there was more than one way to read a forum.


    I just kind of tab between stuff constantly. Though I've gotten "stuck" in conversations before. For a lack of any better term.

  • OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    That's pretty much what I do.

  • Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!

    That's what I do, except I don't call it an algorithm.

  • That's pretty much what I do.


    Plus a refresh every 2 to 5 minutes.


    I can't help it.

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