# Your SDMB viewing/posting strategy?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-viewing-posting-strategy/187310>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 9, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-viewing-posting-strategy/187310 "2003-07-09T20:04:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-viewing-posting-strategy/187310/21 "2003-07-13T19:53:25Z")

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I use iCab. I open “View New Posts” which (depending on how long I’ve been away) can be anywhere from 250 to 750 new threads. I open the interesting posts of the first page in background windows, then click the “go to next page” link and while that’s loading I go to the Windows menu and read the threads I selected. Post to any that draw me in or where I think I have a meaningful (or meaningless but appropriate) contribution. Go back to list of posts and continue process. If I get interrupted and have to shut down and move (I’m on a laptop) I go to Navigate menu on reboot and pick up where I left off.

Sometimes I interrupt all this to do a search on threads I’ve posted to within the last week to see if there are followup comments I need to respond to.

I rarely open a forum directly and browse through it, although I might if for some reason I loaded the board and didn’t do a “View New Posts” and then quit out of the browser.

I may have to give up on this technique, as the posting rate has picked up to the point that people post faster than I can even read the titles sometimes! This can be intimidating: “Displaying Topics 826 to 850 of 1130”

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