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Title: How to unlink from a thread?
Post by: ainslie on Tuesday 21 August 12 12:37 BST (UK)
Once I have made a post on a thread, all later posts by others cause it to appear in the list of unread posts when I re-enter.  Sometimes I have no more interest, having given my two pennorth.
Is there any way to disengage?
Ainslie
Title: Re: How to unlink from a thread?
Post by: JenB on Tuesday 21 August 12 12:40 BST (UK)
Is there any way to disengage?

A Moderator would give the definitive answer, but I don't think there is.

The only solution would be that if you aren't interested in the thread any more, just leave it as unread.
Title: Re: How to unlink from a thread?
Post by: Ruskie on Tuesday 21 August 12 12:41 BST (UK)
When you get an email notifying you of new replies to a thread you have posted in, you will have a choice to view the topic or 'unsubscribe'. Select 'unsubscribe' and you will receive no more emails.
Title: Re: How to unlink from a thread?
Post by: Ruskie on Tuesday 21 August 12 12:41 BST (UK)
ok, sorry 'bout that - I misunderstood your question ....
Title: Re: How to unlink from a thread?
Post by: Ruskie on Tuesday 21 August 12 12:47 BST (UK)
... or maybe unsubscribing will stop threads from appearing?  :-\ I don't have this problem because I never (or seldom) go to "show unread posts since last visit". I usually just 'hang around' the [Welcome] button on the bar at the top of the page where all the new posts appear.

Apologies if I have misinterpreted your dilemma.  :)
Title: Re: How to unlink from a thread?
Post by: JenB on Tuesday 21 August 12 12:50 BST (UK)
... or maybe unsubscribing will stop threads from appearing? 

No - if you unsubscribe to emails the thread will still show when you check your unread posts.
Title: Re: How to unlink from a thread?
Post by: Ruskie on Tuesday 21 August 12 13:09 BST (UK)
... or maybe unsubscribing will stop threads from appearing? 

No - if you unsubscribe to emails the thread will still show when you check your unread posts.

oh I see.

Well the easiest solution I suppose is: don't bother to check your unread posts. Keep track of any threads you have contributed to via email nofitifcations, and unsubscribe if you no longer wish to be informed of replies to any threads.  :-\
Title: Re: How to unlink from a thread?
Post by: JenB on Tuesday 21 August 12 13:13 BST (UK)
I knew I'd seen it somewhere - chapter and verse from Berlin-Bob in the Beginners Section:

And by the way, that only applies to e-mail notifications;
sorry, but you cannot switch off entries in the
Show unread posts since last visit. or the Show new replies to your posts.  list.


http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,161799.0.html

and also here

Again:  (and again and again and again .......  Roll Eyes )

Clicking on "notify", whether on the topic, or in your profile
    only affects the e-mail notification and nothing else !!

If there are topics in Show new replies to your posts.  that are rarely replied to, then clicking on them will cause them to be deleted from this list.

If they are topics with constant "traffic" (TOT Chat topics, for instance) then they will constantly re-appear.  Although if you click on any (now) locked topics, they will then also disappear, as nobody can add any new replies there.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,315063.msg1961938.html#msg1961938


Title: Re: How to unlink from a thread?
Post by: grubheam on Tuesday 21 August 12 14:10 BST (UK)
Or when you have done with your topic, you should put "completed" after the subject heading  e.g. Edward Smith - completed - with clicking on "notify" button and save it. So everyone know you have done with your topic so no more messages

Is that right?
Title: Re: How to unlink from a thread?
Post by: ainslie on Tuesday 21 August 12 14:14 BST (UK)
Wow, what a lot of replies!  I do not opt for email notifications, so it looks as if I shall have to ignore the new replies option.
Thanks for interest.
A
Title: Re: How to unlink from a thread?
Post by: Ruskie on Tuesday 21 August 12 14:41 BST (UK)
Or when you have done with your topic, you should put "completed" after the subject heading  e.g. Edward Smith - completed - with clicking on "notify" button and save it. So everyone know you have done with your topic so no more messages

Is that right?

You do this when your question has been answered to your satisfaction, but it is still possible to reply to 'completed' posts. Locking a topic ensures that no one can reply to it.


However .... that is not what the original poster here is asking about.  ;)
Title: Re: How to unlink from a thread?
Post by: ainslie on Tuesday 21 August 12 16:05 BST (UK)
As the OP, it is not my own topics I am thinking of, but others', where I have chipped in with a suggestion, but then have no more to say.
A
Title: Re: How to unlink from a thread?
Post by: Berlin-Bob on Tuesday 21 August 12 16:48 BST (UK)
Or when you have done with your topic, you should put "completed" after the subject heading  e.g. Edward Smith - completed - with clicking on "notify" button and save it. So everyone know you have done with your topic so no more messages

Is that right?

You do this when your question has been answered to your satisfaction, but it is still possible to reply to 'completed' posts. Locking a topic ensures that no one can reply to it.

In general we advise against locking "completed" request topics: it sometimes happens that a "completed" topic is suddenly re-opened because someone found the topic in a search machine and discovered that they were related .... or at least had some new info. to add.

regards,
Bob
Title: Re: How to unlink from a thread?
Post by: baggygenes on Tuesday 21 August 12 16:53 BST (UK)
Go on your profile
Then to Notifications and Email
check the boxes against the threads you no longer wish to be notified of
then press unsubscribe

these threads will then no longer show up in your unread posts
Title: Re: How to unlink from a thread?
Post by: ainslie on Tuesday 21 August 12 17:04 BST (UK)
Aha!
Title: Re: How to unlink from a thread?
Post by: Berlin-Bob on Tuesday 21 August 12 17:07 BST (UK)
Just to repeat was has already been said:

You can choose whether or not you want to receive e-mail notifications.

You cannot remove yourself or be removed from the

- Show unread posts since last visit. list or
- Show new replies to your posts. list.

Title: Re: How to unlink from a thread?
Post by: baggygenes on Tuesday 21 August 12 18:03 BST (UK)
your posts on the threads can't be removed but you can remove the thread from showing up in new replies to your posts and being notified ... which is what I thought the question was ? ? ? 

*I did it myself when I got fed up with loads and loads of olympic stuff.   The threads still showed in unread posts since last visit but no longer in replies to my posts
Title: Re: How to unlink from a thread?
Post by: Berlin-Bob on Tuesday 21 August 12 18:07 BST (UK)
No, the question was only about the list of unread posts.
Quote
Once I have made a post on a thread, all later posts by others cause it to appear in the list of unread posts when I re-enter.

Bob
Title: Re: How to unlink from a thread?
Post by: baggygenes on Tuesday 21 August 12 18:12 BST (UK)

Sorry I thought ...

Once I have made a post on a thread

meant in the "new replies" even though they put "unread" as the posts you have participated in show up there once you have replied. 
Title: Re: How to unlink from a thread?
Post by: ainslie on Tuesday 21 August 12 18:18 BST (UK)
I am the one to be sorry for having confused everyone including myself.  It is the new replies where I would like to be able to disconnect from a thread I have no more interest in.
I do not have email notifications.
A
Title: Re: How to unlink from a thread?
Post by: baggygenes on Tuesday 21 August 12 18:25 BST (UK)
yeah thats what I thought you meant  .. like I said follow what I put and uncheck the ones you aren't interested in and they won't or shouldn't pop up in new replies any more (it works for me anyway)
Title: Re: How to unlink from a thread?
Post by: Arranroots on Tuesday 21 August 12 21:02 BST (UK)
Sorry Baggygenes is wrong - until a topic stops receiving replies it will still appear in the list of Unread Replies, as has been mentioned above, whether or not you opt to receive email notifications.

I have just popped up here to add that we restrict the number of pages of replies to really "popular" topics for just this reason. Usually they are locked at 20 pages (or fewer) and a new topic is linked to the old one. This is especially true for the Totally Off Topic board where a joke or lighthearted comment can result in months' worth of replies if we don't call a halt somewhere!

Kind regards, Arranroots  ;)
Title: Re: How to unlink from a thread?
Post by: ainslie on Tuesday 21 August 12 21:54 BST (UK)
Thanks for the explanation.
A
Title: Re: How to unlink from a thread?
Post by: baggygenes on Tuesday 21 August 12 22:34 BST (UK)
Ainslie wants to remove items from New Replies to Your Posts  not unread posts  .. you cannot stop things in unread but you can in new replies ... I have done it when my new replies was getting full up with replies to olympic things

Perhaps Ainslie would like to try my suggestion and see if it works?
Title: Re: How to unlink from a thread?
Post by: Arranroots on Tuesday 21 August 12 22:49 BST (UK)
Sorry, that's what I should have typed - "Show new replies to your posts".

Look forward to hearing the outcome of any test though!

 ;)