Lack of interest Do you want to mark the forums as read before leaving?

[Old Nick]

Hello, this is my great suggestion:
An option in the preferences which would activate or not a pop-up when leaving the forum: Do you want to mark the forums as read before leaving?

 

[Robru]

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[Old Nick]

That's the game. And I completely understand your point of view.

 

[Mouth]

when leaving the forum

Can you define this further?

 

[TrixieTang]

Eww. Just the thought of this is awful. Even as a user option this should be left to a mod rather than built in.

 

[Mr Lucky]

Just out of curiosity, what is the advantage of marking forums read? (I've never had a reason to do so, hence just wondering)

 

[James]

Just out of curiosity, what is the advantage of marking forums read? (I've never had a reason to do so, hence just wondering)

Presumably so when you next visit all the unread posts are actually new posts since your last visit?

 

[Mendalla]

Just out of curiosity, what is the advantage of marking forums read? (I've never had a reason to do so, hence just wondering)

Clears the flag that shows posts as "New" thereby clearing the bold from threads/forums that shows they contain unread posts and New Posts will be empty. IOW just simulates you going through and reading everything.

I tend to use it when I have a big backlog of New Posts to read and don't think I will get to them or if I have read all the new posts that I am interested in and want to ignore the rest.