# The "I posted in this thread" dot

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-posted-in-this-thread-dot/418330>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [September 7, 2007, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-posted-in-this-thread-dot/418330 "2007-09-07T03:31:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-posted-in-this-thread-dot/418330/1 "2007-09-07T03:31:26Z")

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I remember once that there was this feature on the board in which any thread you had posted in would display a little dot on the envelope icon. Is that ever going to come back? It was sort of neat.

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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-posted-in-this-thread-dot/418330/2 "2007-09-07T03:33:45Z")

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[QUOTE=Snooooopy]  
I remember once that there was this feature on the board in which any thread you had posted in would display a little dot on the envelope icon. Is that ever going to come back? It was sort of neat.  
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No. The functionality behind it was so unbelievably server intensive that board performance literally slowed to a crawl. They turned it off inside of a couple days, with damn good reason.

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**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-posted-in-this-thread-dot/418330/3 "2007-09-07T05:20:24Z")

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??? Any thread I have posted in has a blue box with a check mark to the right of the thread title. Is this what you are talking about? Or do you want more than one indicator?

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**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-posted-in-this-thread-dot/418330/4 "2007-09-07T06:30:31Z")

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That’s the ‘subscribed’ indicator; I believe the default behaviour is to auto-subscribe you to threads you post in, so the effect is quite similar.