Topic: How do you keep up with these forums? (Read 561 times)

You could probably add the boards in a feedreader.

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I would personally just search for those things that really interest you... because there is no chance that one person could keep up with all of this material here...

I use the Watchlist.

Every thread that I post to is automatically added to my watchlist.
If I find a thread where I want to be kept updated on the conversation, but have nothing to say myself yet, I click the "watch" link at the top of the thread.

Then:

I start by clicking the "Watchlist" link at the top of the forum.  With that I can see the recent updates that are most important to me. Once I've read through all of them (and responded as needed), I click the "Watchlist" link again to verify there haven't been any new updates since I started looking.

Next I click the "Newbies" forum.  The threads are listed with those most recently posted to at the top.  Any thread that has had a post that I haven't seen yet is bold. I scan the subject lines for any that interest me, and open each in a new tab.  When I've gotten to the bottom of all the bold subject lines, I click the "mark read" link at the top of the sub-forum.  This way when I return, I can tell which threads have comments that I haven't seen yet.  Then I go read each of my open tabs, replying as needed and closing the tab as I finish with each thread.

From there I move on to the "Service Discussion" forum, then "Currency Exchange", "Technical Support", "Development & Technical Discussion", "Project Development", and "Bitcoin Discussion" in that order.  In each case, I use the system of: scan the bold subject lines for topics that interest me, open them in a new tab, when I reach the end of the bold subject lines, click "mark read", and read through all my tabs closing each one as I finish with it.

The rest of the sub-forums don't interest me much, so I simply avoid them.

Once in a while (if I've been too busy to get to the bitcointalk forum for a few days), there are simply too many unread threads in a sub-forum (most typically the "Newbies" forum) to get through them all.  In that case I'll just scan 5 or 6 pages in, and then click the "mark read" link.  If anything older than that is important, hopefully is will receive a new post sometime in the future and I'll see it.

Check out the "Show unread posts since last visit" link

AND

"Show new replies to your posts" link

Both are at the top left of the page. 

I follow https://twitter.com/bitcoininfo it has a bot, that auto posts interesting threads on the forum.

I'm sure most folk just check in with the speculation board first

Thanks.. that's a good shout - board preferences duly trimmed, ta

  I know what you mean.

But, you can do this: Click 'profile' up near the top > then in modify profile click 'Ignore Boards Preferences' and turn off the ones that don't interest you.

Hope that helps

K.

The "Newbies" board has a lot of pages... just click on any page and post something relevant and helpful on a random post on that page and you'll soon be over the post requirement.

Quality over quantity goes a long way around here.

I spam threads. Check my posts amount.

Just 'post mining' to get me out of this newbie limbo but genuine question... what's your forum browsing strategy?

I'd like to read every one of my unread posts since my last visit but the volume is incredible, can't we demand some proof of work prior to posting