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Local Parasite
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0 posted 2002-09-23 03:16 AM


I think it'd be extremely useful to have a way to see, on the forum page, the poems to which you have or haven't replied.  When I run through I like to see that I'm not missing any, and it's usually guesswork to see which ones I haven't yet replied to.  If there was something on the forum page, like a check mark next to each post, it would be extremely helpful.

I wonder if this would be difficult to work out.  I doubt it, though, as we already have folder colours based on whose reply was the last... which is almost as useful, but not as reliable (it's unpredictable how often I even see those colours).

Thoughts?

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Krishankins
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1 posted 2002-09-24 12:14 PM


Good point!

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Kellie_Cantrell
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2 posted 2002-09-24 01:32 AM


i agree to that idea.
quietlydying
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3 posted 2002-10-06 08:44 PM


so what are those colours for?

i've been here a year and a half [or something to that effect] and i didn't even know we had different coloured folders next to the topics.

crazy crazy.

/jen/

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hush
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4 posted 2002-12-23 01:08 PM


It seems to me that if you are skimming poems so lightly you don't even remember what youve replied to, then the issue isn't the software.
Local Parasite
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5 posted 2002-12-23 02:21 PM


No Hush, it's not that... I posted this a long time ago when I used to reply to absolutely everything in Teen Poetry, and I didn't remember the poems by their titles on the actual page.  I tend to only see the titles as I click on the poem and then not relate them to the poem itself.

Sure I could open every one up and remember each one individually, but when you reply as much as I used to it gets difficult to remember each and every one (especially in teen, where the titles usually aren't that memorable).  I was also thinking it would be easier to have something stick out at you exclusively (the folder colours would be nice if they worked a little better), when you look at the page, instead of reading every title and thinking whether or not you've read it.

It's no longer an issue.  And I'm confident that I do not read poems "lightly," thanks very much.

[This message has been edited by Local Parasite (12-23-2002 02:23 PM).]

quietlydying
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6 posted 2003-01-08 06:53 PM


it is a good idea as i too often forget which poems i've replied to.

every other member on the site has written something entitled 'why?' [and it drives me nuts].

it's nearly impossible to distinguish poems by their subject title's alone.

/jen/

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7 posted 2003-08-09 02:05 AM


Bumping this partly because I think it deserves current consideration, and because I'd like to add my two-cents-worth.... I'd like to be able to pull a list of poems I've replied to, because I want to go back easily and see if the writer has responded to me.

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Krawdad
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8 posted 2003-08-09 02:33 AM


Rat,
Go to "Smart Search".
You can pull up a list there.


Nan
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9 posted 2003-08-09 08:56 AM


If a poet has most recently responded to comments on their thread, the folder beside that poem will appear as "gray" rather than orange or yellow...
Ringo
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10 posted 2003-08-09 05:43 PM


This has got my vote.

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Local Rebel
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11 posted 2003-08-09 08:33 PM


Mine too..

I often read a poem/thread many times before I can respond to it and sometimes think I responded and didn't.  

Anything that will tickle the greymatter would be a benefit.

littlewing
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12 posted 2003-08-09 10:51 PM


I agree . . . many times I will read and digest and come back meaning to reply and dont . . . thinking I have  
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