I’ll do a vanity search if I posted a lot the previous day, so I can see any responses to those threads. I get to work at 6:30 a.m., so I don’t usually tax the hamsters with one search. I try never to search during the daytime, both to keep from slowing down the servers and because it’s just about impossible to do so anyway.
Otherwise, I check whichever forum had a thread I most remember from the previous day, then check either MPSIMS, IMHO or the Pit, not in any particular order. I very occasionally check GD and GQ, and even less often, the other forums.
What, am I the only one using “user cp”?
The emails are a tedious side effect, but I just delete them en masse. Every morning, I check the user cp for the threads I’m involved in.
Then I make the rounds: CS, IMHO, GQ. If I’m bored, MPSIMS, GD, and the pit. If I’m real bored, Comments and ATMB.
You & me both, gonzoron ! The User CP/Subscribed threads feature was the very finest part of the last upgrade, as far as I’m concerned.
From there we diverge. I almost always search for new posts after viewing the user cp. Then, I go back to the first page of new posts & refresh, to see if I’ve got a quick reply.
Ok, user CP seems to do the same thing that a vanity search does. But, the page takes a while to load. Do we have reason to believe that user CP is easier on the hampsters than doing a search? It seems to me that user CP might just be another way of searching.
I’m such a newbie. I just wonder around for about an hour at a time…since I don’t have to go to work Not really sure how to do all those crazy e-mail things you guys are talking about, but I do like MPSIMS and IMHO the best.
Hmm, I didn’t know that, about the subscribing to threads bit. I often subscribe to threads that look interesting, but I haven’t replied to. Obviously I shouldn’t be doing that. And I always check email notification. I have it set as my default.
I just remembered reading once in ATMB that doing vanity searches was hard on the servers, and never did it.
I guess my never doing vanity searches makes up for all my email notifications.
User CP isn’t quite the same as a vanity search. It only shows threads you’re subscribed to (i.e. email notified). So it won’t pick up someone Pitting you. I wasn’t aware subscriptions were hard on the hamsters. They’ve got to be better than searches, though, no?
Go to MPSIMS to read anything that looks interesting, peak into to Pit but never raise my head above the battlements as I am generally far to scared then off to IMHO.
After this it depends on how I feel. Never done a vanity search as I don’t like to worry the hamsters.
I read every new ATMB post (which typically takes about 5 minutes), then I check out either MPSIMS ot the Pit, depending how I feel and if I’m involved in anything in the Pit, then the other of that pair. Recently I barely open any MPSIMS threads though. Sometimes I get burned out on the board at that point and I go play basketball. Otherwise I scan Cafe Society and GQ and check up on whatever few GD threads that I’ve been following. When im the habit of posting a lot to many different forums I’ll do a search on my posts every couple days to make sure there wasn’t anything I missed.
Not really sure how to do all those crazy e-mail things you guys are talking about, but I do like MPSIMS and IMHO the best.