Seeing post numbers for "normal" threads

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So with some help I managed, finally, to figure out how to distinguish threads I’ve posted in from those I haven’t in the “latest topics” list: set preferences to set anything I’ve posted into as “tracking” and threads I’ve only read, along with ones I haven’t, as “normal”. Normal threads aren’t supposed to show a number for a new post count, tracked threads are.

But a small percentage of “normal” threads – not all of them – are now showing that number of new post counts; so again I can’t tell the threads I’ve posted in from those I haven’t when looking at the list.

Anybody got any advice on this?

(And no, my topic is not similar to “post-positivism” in General Questions in 2004.)

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Watching may be better than Tracking for keeping track of where you’ve posted.

Anyway, you can change how it automatically sets threads to Tracking in your Profile > Preferences > Notifications.

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Thank God Discobot cannot figure that out yet.

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Yes, I did that. That’s the point. An occasional thread that’s set to Normal shows a post count as if I had it set to Tracking or Watching. Most of them don’t; I don’t know why those threads that do this are doing it. But they’re already set to Normal, it’s not a matter of my having the setting wrong.