to think that marking your place on a sensitive thread with a . is crass and insensitive?

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There is a watch thread function, if you want to lurk.

Of if you must, at least add a phrase of support or something for the OP.

You are right.

It is rubbernecking. How much would it take for someone to type 'I am sorry' or something.

Actually I know IANBU. Just ranting. Saw it just now.

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HA! Sorry. Couldn't resist

In my defense that is the first time I have ever done that.

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completely unnecessary on any thread as there is a function called bookmark..

I thought it was used as a 'bump' not a marker.

Depends what the topic is i guess.

Show me a bit of respect Hearts!

Noqontrol. I agree it depends on the topic. Quite often people will mark space in a non-sensitive thread, which is fair enough imo.

bump

no agree

either say something helpful or sympathetic, or simply Watch the thread.

It is awful. Same as when a poster types "bump" 1 minute after the previous message.

I don't think it is really acceptable anywhere tbh. If you do it on a thread about slingbacks you are a dull git, if you do it on a sensitive thread you are thoughtless.

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I agree

I started a similar thread under a previous name and was how many people thought it was acceptable - like you really can't be bothered to type "how awful" in at least a cursory attempt to hide your rubber necking

Tis very rude.

I always assumed it was a relic from the days before bookmarking ( which I just remember). I presume the offenders are stuck in the dark ages on MN classic unable to work out what the rest of us are talking about. Nevertheless it is very very rude and shows those posters up. I have never done it.

I admit I posted quite a lot of "x" on Ailidh and Expat's threads. It was following posts where I had attempted to say what I was thiking/feeling and indicated I had nothing further to add but was still thinking of them. Writing "I have nothing to say but am still thinking about you" seemed unnecessary.

I dont understand why people don't just use the bookmark function, but then mine is temperamental and has disappeared before.

But I thnk if you are going to put something sensitive on the big we'd web, especially on a site as big as this, then you can't complain if you get responses you don't like. It's the nature of the beast.

hmm, if you post on an internet forum you are hardly shying away from the old rubber neckers are you?

I saw that, utterly inappropriate!

The bookmark function is useful for marking how far you've read into a thread. But it's not the same as using a full stop so that it comes up in "Threads I'm On".

The full stop can also be used as a bump to get it to the top of Active Conversations, which is a legitimate and useful function in some cases imo.

Empusa was that to me?