That's just plain wrong. Freedom of speech is about what *governments* can do to shut you up (this is one area where we in the U.S. are still a bit more "free" than many other rich democracies). I'm just a citizen, so your freedom of speech ends at my ears (or eyes, in this case).

Seriously, being able to ignore people is like the Yin to free speech's Yang. How can you possibly imagine that anyone is obliged to listen just because you want to talk? I reserve that sort of submission for emergency situations where I really should listen to the nice folks in uniforms tell me what to do to keep my ass from getting burned or drowned or whatever.

And I say all that as someone who's obviously at least a bit fond of watching himself type.

I stand corrected in my 'tricky' reasoning or implications that such a system would introduce... and yet, i know exactly why or how i decided to participate in whichever threads.

That also opens up a way for everyone to simply ignore "general" sections of a site for not being aware that a specific subject (a single thread, maybe) has evolved beyond what caused them leaving. In that case, trolls are winning and YOU lost for escaping a community duty which is to (somehow) fight back for your opinions.

I'm not. But the open-minded must have a minimal critical sense and a subjective opinion against what is counter productive to community harmony.

Multiple *Impulse is Crap* attempts lately?

You type a reply proving it isn't... then, unsubscribe from it. Three days later, the OP logs back on and admits in public being wrong. What have you missed?

Maybe YOU don't care. Others do.

Anyone has certain areas of interest. Mine is Modding.

I can see a day when ALL but little fanatic_groupies will join together in their own private club if that system is implemented. This forum is public. That's the Internet. Like it or not, freedom of expression has a cost.

Low priority as per Bara's response -- Good. Since, i want GC2 updates and a library re-opened from SD staff. But if someone else prefer off-topic chit-chatting, i won't be there to encourage ignoring what they come here for. Who knows, maybe they play intellectual games with our & your own mini-world too.

Your only ignoring your own further participation in such a topic though. Had you never posted in said thread you could possibly not know of it's existence anyway.

I'm not going to get into this though.

Thanks for checking this out Bara. I understand your priorities mate.

As i do have 17 pages worth of "My Replies" with 95% of it already buried from personal lack of interest unless bumped by someone.

Example:    I would like to unsubscribe from this thread...lol!!!  

Agreed! It's gone beyond my personal interest in the subject.

But again, the My Replies page is not meant to show your interests.  It's meant to be a history of your replies. 

I think what you're looking for is a Subscribed Threads page.  You'd click a button on any thread titled "Subscribe" and it would appear in it's own special page.  You can then unsubscribe at any time from that page.  I think this has been suggested before, I should already have it on my list.

Bara

I forget how long ago it was, but the forum used to have a Watch This Post command and a matching Stop Watching This post function. The site sent email when someone added a reply, but I'd be just as happy (maybe happier) to have a Watched Threads page along the lines you describe.

The old function was especially helpful to me back when I was learning lots of new things about GC2. I just wanted to read and didn't have anything helpful to add to the threads, so posting just seemed like a form of littering.

Again, I think we are meaning we would like a way to clear the histories of our replies, at least from our list. Before I changed names, I had 10 or 12 pages...most of which I had no interest in ever visiting again. It is understood that we are not "subscribed" to the replies pages. It would be cool to be able to clear them, or to be able to choose to remove selected ones, like clearing sent PMs in the PM section.

I disagree.  I think it'd be more worthwhile to make a separate "watched threads" or "subscribed threads" list than to clear the my replies page.  What if you wanted to "unclear" a cleared reply? How would that work exactly?  Would you have to reply again to see it in the list?  Being able to simply subscribe/unsubscribe from important topics is a better way of handling this, imo.

Bara

Hmmm since My Relies is the only way we can "subscribe" to a thread, if you will, what redneckdude is saying is perfect. Most people use the feature to keep track of their conversations, and only want to see their current active threads.

If that is not wanted by SD, then bring back the watchlist button by all means. That is the feature that is wanted.

If that feature was brought back/implemented, then i would simply add every thread i post in to the list and then unsub as needed. I would never need My Replies again.

Works for me. (Can we have a way to hide the "My Replies" tab then......)

Watchlist with sub/unsub feature.

+1

I'm for whatever works here, Bara. But think of the way you delete something on Windows...goes to recycle bin, where you can go and restore it. Wouldn't that be doable on the web? Just asking, I know nothing of the workings of a website, I just know what I would like.  I am for whatever works, just hate having to sort thru all the pages of replies when I have no interest in them anymore.

I agree 100%. Subscribed topics would act like a list of favorites. For example, now i have a bookmark made to My Replies page, too see some of the topics i've replied and i'm still interested in. But a lot of them i don't wanna see them again after i've posted, such as this thread. It's really strange that this forum doesn't have such a feature. I'm active on a lot of forums on the internet, and this is the only one that i've encountered this problem.

See my previous post about the "hide" feature. It should be fairly easy to implement, and allows to "unhide" a thread too.

I'll see about making a quick mockup to illustrate my idea, not now though, I need some sleep.

I have enough Spam in my eMail box already; Pills, Won somethin', phishers, asciis i can't even decipher... name it. That's the first thing i turn off on any forums i participate(d) to and if it doesn't stop within a week or less i simply cancel the accounts.

Watch threads... the idea is good - but, seriously i just have to compare two columns with last reply tags from me and others. Some left side Icons are on fire, blue cues, etc.

There's always room for improvement, but if i find something interesting what stops me from typing a reply to subscribe permanently as of now. Maybe personal "moderating lock" symbol on the left would indicate me i've just unsubscribe from it... but, that runs the risk of creating a groupies membership as i explained earlier. Gang X ignores Gang Y which in turn starts to ignore Gang Z of noobs which in turn decides to ignore Gang W in Off-Topic sections.

So much for a community sense.

Loneliness is a two edge sword and once someone realizes he is talkin' to the wind, he'll go away.

Don't worry, he may return to determine if a board shows some activity -- too late for Gang A or S or M to regret his absence.