To think place marking ruins threads?

[QuacksLikeADuck]

I appreciate that people "mark their place" on a thread because it's the most effective way for them to find that specific thread again. I know that the "watch thread" function doesn't work for some people, and that posting on a thread informs you if the thread is deleted whereas watching a thread doesn't.

But I've been on many other Internet forums in my time, and have never come across one where the users fill up pages and pages of threads with "place marking" posts - which means they take ages to read! Surely MNHQ could solve this by making the "watch thread" function work as well as posting clearly does, to help people follow a specific thread?

And so in the mean time if you have nothing to add to a popular thread other that writing "marking my place", and it is the kind of thread that is very unlikely to be deleted, and if the "watch thread" function works perfectly well for you - then would it be unreasonable to think you should use it, rather than filling the thread with pointless posts?

Incidentally, where is the parking thread?!!
That's twice it's vanished from my grasp

Incidentally, where is the parking thread?!! That's twice it's vanished from my grasp

It's in my Watch List.
HTH

(And I agree with the OP)

Iv put it on my watch list twice and it's gone!

Another couple of forums I use have a "subscribe to thread" function, so you can find where you were on it, you don't even have to post on the thread to be subscribed. It also has an "unread" function, so you can display all the posts you haven't read on a busy thread.

It's great!

Let me piss on this thread so I can find it later type thing?

I don't have the bookmark button (am on a phone, but the Internet not the app). Is there a way to switch it on or summat? I usually watch threads, how is bookmark different to watch, can anyone please tell me?

Are you logged in to MN? It doesn't work unless you are.

Yup. Always am.

does get a bit tedious reading

marking or a . etc

i just bookmark and highlight op, think is green and my posts are purple and is easily found whether in ipad/lappy or iphone

I'm on my phone using the Internet not the app - if I tap a post I get a little blue Bookmark box up on the right - tap on that and it saves your place. Next time up you open the thread it takes you there.

Of course you have to remember you wanted to check on that thread...

Watching threads doesn't tell you where you left off. Posting you can highlight your name and pick up where you were. Otherwise you're stuck rereading posts for a little bit.

I don't do it, I'm usually more curious about what the OP has to say than the random comments. That is fixed by just reading the highlighted posts.

On the mobile site (not the app):

scroll to the top
tap 'Customise'
scroll down to 'Display bookmark links?'
select 'yes'

you now have bookmarking.

Though I just noticed that it only works on the new style Mumsnet site - not classic or whatever the other display styles are called.

Is there a way on the app of highlighting your own posts? I used to like that on the desktop site.

No. Ditch the app and use the mobile site instead. Its far more user-friendly.

I didn't know about bookmarks. This is as much of a revalation as highlighting the op's posts.

Ooh Juniper, thank you so much!

Wow, I had no idea about bookmarking either! Why on earth is that not switched on by default? ... MNHQ are you listening?

I agree that the app is crap, but bookmarking on the mobile site does indeed seems to be the solution to this issue!

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Bookmarking is great, one of those things that when you have it you wonder how you ever managed without it.

YADNBU. I just don't get 'marking my place'. I'd feel a right tit putting that and nobody even knows me.

Watch and bookmark FFS!

And I agree with the poster who said I hope the parking thread gets filled up and the tits 'marking their place' never find out what happened.