What's all this place-marking stuff, then?

[MamaLazarou]

On the 'weird hosts' thread, people keep coming in and saying that they are 'marking their place' on the thread. WTF do they mean?

I presume they want it to appear in active convos but don't have owt to post themselves OR are coming back to add to it / read it later.

Dunno why folk don't watch it instead, but horses for courses and all that.

That they can easily find both the thread and the place they have read up to by searching on threads I'm On.

they mean they want to no-one ever does that now do they

they want it on their threads I'm on to save searching for it

In the old days, people would just do a fullstop and post. Now, people announce that they're marking their place.

Can't be arsed tbh. I can't remember a thread much past the moment I've posted on it. Not that any of you bore me, you understand!

its naff imo
add to " watch"

I do that to get it on my I'm on list. Much easier than watching, which I always forget about anyway.

How to you add a message to "I'm watching? Do you just click on "Add message"?

click watch this thread - top and bottom. It'll live in your watched threads.
Then you can mark your place by hovering in the bottom right hand corner and clocking on the 'bookmark' that appears. No need for all this .... and marking place piffle.

I never watch threads. Am I missing out? Or just have soooooo much shite to say I always end up commenting? Yes yes it's the latter.

Watching's better.
My "I'm on threads" disappear quite quickly.

this seems like it might become an interesting thread...marking my place

Migrating I haven't seen you in yonkers :)

yey! pinot!!!

how's the kittens cats??

A year old next week!

that was the highlight of MN last easter

It was a crazy few weeks! The night feeds! The bottom wiping! heh heh :o

yes...and then there were the kittens to look after!

yy watching is fine but then you have to unwatch when thread dies. tis boring. lurking/place marking much better imo

Hi Pinot! Have you got pics of the kittens all grown up now? They were so cute....

I never look at "I'm watching".

They want it to appear on "threads I'm on" but don't have anything to say.

Jus' marking me place...

Not something I do, I don't like it, seems rude. I can see why people would though.

It wouldn't happen if the bookmarking function was up to it's job. WTF is the point of it when you then have to go searching for the thread before the bookmark is of use? We need a "threads I've bookmarked" bit.

Hetty yy I think it's a bit rood too. Sure it's not. But.

Jux I'll put some new ones on my profile this week in prep for their birthday on Tuesday :) :)