# Tracking posts **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 31, 2000, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracking-posts/27578 "2000-07-31T18:46:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracking-posts/27578/1 "2000-07-31T18:46:52Z")
Is it possible to setup a “[my.straightdope.com](http://my.straightdope.com)”-type page where favourite threads are followed? It could automatically include threads started by a person, and a link on each thread could be to “Add to home page”, as well as an option when replying to an existing thread. I thought about this yesterday after coming back to the board after two or three days away and noticing that threads I was following during the week were hard to find (i.e., not on the first page anymore). Does the vBulletin software support this? ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracking-posts/27578/2 "2000-07-31T21:36:46Z")
Nope. I’m sorry that the software does not support that at this time. You should keep in mind that this software package is brand new from the ground up, so there’s a lot of things they plan to to incorporate in future editions. The vBulletin guys have a board where they’ll take suggestions for future features at [http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/index.php](http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/index.php) ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracking-posts/27578/3 "2000-07-31T21:40:49Z")
I usually bookmark threads if I want to keep track of them. ---
**Author:** ![DoZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@DoZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoZ)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracking-posts/27578/4 "2000-08-01T01:38:03Z")
I go to the File pull-down and select Send Shortcut to Desktop. When I start back up I just click on them all. That way, since they only last a day or two, they aren’t accumulating in the Favorites(Bookmark) list. ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracking-posts/27578/5 "2000-08-01T03:24:30Z")
I’ve considered bookmarking, but it’s quite a pain to delete old ones after a while. Then, I tried just bookmarking the search results page for my own posts, but not all the threads I wanted to track were ones I had posted to (like, say, the **Smut Shop Employees** one that blew up into a witch hunt). So, not finding either of those solutions ideal, I came up with the idea that’s in my OP. Thanks for the advice, Uncle Beer. ---
**Author:** ![2sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e47774/32.png) [@2sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2sense)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracking-posts/27578/6 "2000-08-01T05:34:38Z")
This poster would like to encourage **Do Z** ( or anyone else ) to elaborate on this “File pull-down” method. This poster has Windows98 and knows little about it. I would appreciate a better mousetrap.