# Seeing post numbers for "normal" threads

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**Created:** [July 28, 2020, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeing-post-numbers-for-normal-threads/916621 "2020-07-28T17:59:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeing-post-numbers-for-normal-threads/916621/1 "2020-07-28T17:59:04Z")

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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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**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeing-post-numbers-for-normal-threads/916621/2 "2020-07-29T07:53:45Z")

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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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**Author:** ![PlaceboTarget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/placebotarget/32/1073_2.png) [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeing-post-numbers-for-normal-threads/916621/3 "2020-07-29T08:10:10Z")

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> [@thorny\_locust](#):
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> And no, my topic is not similar to “post-positivism” in General Questions in 2004

Thank God Discobot cannot figure that out yet.

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**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeing-post-numbers-for-normal-threads/916621/4 "2020-07-29T12:24:54Z")

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> [@GreenWyvern](#):
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> you can change how it automatically sets threads to Tracking in your Profile \> Preferences \> Notifications.

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.