To point out there is a "Watch this thread" button?

[MardyBra]

So much simpler than clogging up a nearly full thread to mark your place.

I hide loads. I have loads of topics hidden too.

I have started threads like that in the past sinister.

AIBU to point out there is a search facility, and if you use it, this thread has been done over and over again in the last 2 or 3 months?

You'll find lots of valid reasons there for people using the site differently from you.

I don't think the fact that a thread topic has been done in the last few months/weeks/days/hours ever stopped anyone from starting a new one about the same thing Back. MN Talk would cease to exist if that was the case.

backforgood the fact that it got to 1000 posts means it's worth doing again. Clearly parking threads strike a chord .
I use watch for threads I want to keep indefinitely. Boring education stuff mostly.