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    Re: How does everyone keep up?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    most of the interesting people ive never met (except MH )
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    Re: How does everyone keep up?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    Last post by me - bet you dont ever read this
    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    Also, I especially enjoy replying to strongly stated opinions - e.g. tiggstours, martinharper, davidjames, ESG ... wherever they may be etc...
    Yes, some of your 'debates', have made interesting reading.

    I do miss the world domination attempts by S.M.U.R.F though. But I guess you need an equally evil genius as an adversary.

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    Re: How does everyone keep up?

    I skim stuff I'm not interested in, and wait till there's a big weekender on and no-one's posting to catch up proper.
    Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story

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    Re: How does everyone keep up?

    Quote Originally Posted by Lynn View Post
    I do miss the world domination attempts by S.M.U.R.F
    I miss Agony smurf
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    Re: How does everyone keep up?

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidJames View Post
    In terms of "how can you keep up", I used to read everything, but I can't now. So I now have the following technique:
    • Click "New posts"
    • Open a new tab (Firefox browser) for threads I want to read
    • Click "Mark forums read" for all the others


    Hope that helps
    That's pretty much my technique too, and to help further in your quest for a simpler, more tailor-made forum, I have implemented a new feature (available to Silver Members only - Go on subscribe, you know you want to ), it is now possible to select forum areas that will not show on the 'New Posts' or 'Recent Posts' searches.

    In practise, it means that if you don't want to see 15 threads from the 'Fun & Games' area when you look for new posts, or you want to avoid all the birthday wishes, or you hate rude discussions and would rather not peek 'Upstairs', all you have to do is go to your control panel and click on 'Edit Options' and you will be able to select which areas you want to ignore in your new posts searches.
    These areas will still be visible if you browse the forum normally, i.e. nothing is hidden from you, but it acts as a powerful filter, and should save you all time as well as concentrate more 'serious' posts for those that want them.

    All areas in the 'Let's talk about dance' cannot be selected as they are the main reason behind the forum!

    I hope this improves your Ceroc Scotland Forum experience!
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    Re: How does everyone keep up?

    brilliant - been looking for that feature for a while

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    Re: How does everyone keep up?

    Quote Originally Posted by Franck View Post
    [...] it is now possible to select forum areas that will not show on the 'New Posts' or 'Recent Posts' searches.

    [...] all you have to do is go to your control panel and click on 'Edit Options' and you will be able to select which areas you want to ignore in your new posts searches. [...]
    I went there, and found that "Chit-chat" had been pre-selected for me – and sure enough, there was no chit-chat threads in my previous "New Posts" list...

    Unfortunately I want to see the Chit-Chat, as I'm sure many others do. Do all silver members now ignore chit-chat by default?
    Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story

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    Re: How does everyone keep up?

    Quote Originally Posted by ducasi View Post
    I went there, and found that "Chit-chat" had been pre-selected for me – and sure enough, there was no chit-chat threads in my previous "New Posts" list...

    Unfortunately I want to see the Chit-Chat, as I'm sure many others do. Do all silver members now ignore chit-chat by default?
    I just looked and I had the same setting as well.

    I think it would be better if nothing was ignored by default - some people won't read this thread and won't know why they can't see Chit Chat in searches any more...
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    Re: How does everyone keep up?

    I long ago gave up attempting to keep up. Once you've accepted that you can't everything becomes just fine

    I skim through the sections that are likely to interest me, and then read other bits when I have more time on my hands.

    I'll spend some time attempting to understand how to ignore things later. I'm sure that it's really very simple and only a person with a headcold would look at it and be deeply confused.....

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    Re: How does everyone keep up?

    Quote Originally Posted by ducasi View Post
    I went there, and found that "Chit-chat" had been pre-selected for me – and sure enough, there was no chit-chat threads in my previous "New Posts" list...
    Sorry guys, that was a set-up error.
    Should be fixed now.
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    Re: How does everyone keep up?

    Thanks Franck.

    A couple more observations:
    * Does everyone know that if you want to select multiple entries you use the Ctrl key to select them? (at least that's how I do it in Windows + IE; I don't know how widely this applies to other platforms). I believe it's a standard method but probably one that isn't used that often so I'm not sure if everyone will know about it?
    * One section which some might want to exclude is "Take it outside" - is there any reason why this one doesn't appear on the list? (Maybe it's excluded automatically?)
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    Re: How does everyone keep up?

    Quote Originally Posted by Gadget View Post
    brilliant - been looking for that feature for a while
    I just need to move the 'Singletons sofa' into 'fun and games' and i'm sorted

    (don't panic, i won't do it really )
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    Re: How does everyone keep up?

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidY View Post
    Thanks Franck.


    Quote Originally Posted by DavidY View Post
    * Does everyone know that if you want to select multiple entries you use the Ctrl key to select them? (at least that's how I do it in Windows + IE; I don't know how widely this applies to other platforms). I believe it's a standard method but probably one that isn't used that often so I'm not sure if everyone will know about it?
    On the Mac is the "command" key (the one next to the space bar.)

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidY View Post
    * One section which some might want to exclude is "Take it outside" - is there any reason why this one doesn't appear on the list? (Maybe it's excluded automatically?)
    I hope it's not automatically excluded. I'm sure there was a post in the "having a go" thread this morning which I was shown...
    Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story

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    Re: How does everyone keep up?

    Quote Originally Posted by Lory View Post
    I just need to move the 'Singletons sofa' into 'fun and games' and i'm sorted

    (don't panic, i won't do it really )
    Yeah. Cos it's not a game. And it's not funny. So it wouldn't fit!

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    Re: How does everyone keep up?

    Cool. Though depends on what mood I'm in. Sometimes I want to read 'chit chat' and lots of frivolous stuff. So now I can turn this option on/off according to what I feel like viewing.

    (Then again a part of me might wonder what I'm missing...)

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    Re: How does everyone keep up?

    More useful would be an "ignore thread" option.
    Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story

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    Re: How does everyone keep up?

    Quote Originally Posted by ducasi View Post
    More useful would be an "ignore thread" option.
    That would be good...
    I don't read any of the geeky stuff (cos I can't understand it ) for example... it would good if you could just mark certain threads as read but not the whole lot...

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    Re: How does everyone keep up?

    Quote Originally Posted by Lory View Post
    I just need to move the 'Singletons sofa' into 'fun and games' and i'm sorted
    Brilliant idea!

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