This forum is useless

that's why i can't ignore anyone, i tried once, but i kept reading the posts anyway

I've never tried to ignore anyone- it just seems like it defeats the purpose of discussion.

But since we're talking about this new system - why is it now that when I make a post to a thread and I go down to new posts, that thread seems to disappear somewhere while I'm still logged in, but when I log out, it pops back up to the top of the New Posts page?
It's very confusing. I'll think to myself, okay - did my post not go through or did I make a post to a different thread than I thought I made it to? And then I'll give up and log out and then I'll look again (because I don't proofread before - I proofread and edit after) and all of a sudden, there it is again.

why didn't A not2 K make the sun shine on the lake here today - in all the days, in all the year... darn forum, fer goodness sake, get a grip!

Click on the Able2know logo on the top left of the blue stripe at top of screen.

This is what people see when they first come to a2k, and it is the home page.
Look next to your name. You will see a selection of things to look at, including My Preferences.

change "Put unread topics above read topics" to NO

We all log out, even if we have checked Remember Us - Robert explained (or someone did) that is just an auto re log in system - which makes sense. Many people need logging in not to be automatic on their work computers.

My choice of No to collapsing unpopular threads and posts is a steady state system, has been for years.
Hawkeye is just on his soapbox.

Thanks Osso and Region - I feel like I'm getting all sorted out now. I appreciate your help.

You're welcome!

i see that osso and RP answered your query

Yes they did.

Yes, that was a problem that was fixed fast. I wasn't sure which I'd end up preferring. I kind of like the stretch of New posts on top, after all, so now if I want to find something I just posted in, I look at My Posts, where it will be first or close to the top.

The "flaw" is that if I only read it, and had changed (refreshed) pages, then it would be down under the New batch and not show up on my own latest posts. If that starts to bother me, I'll go over to the NO option re new posts being banded together at the top, thus keeping the posts in chronological order.

Really, it's all very adaptable for a lot of preferences - I think it's elegant.

mind your own business is my motto

my business is to influenz yor mind

if you blow up, I cannot do thât

A case in point.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Why do you assume there is NOT?

This is the thing that gets me about a few of you Phil Forum people...eg, in this case, you.

What on earth makes you assume (as you seem to) that, because people like to talk about the matters of daily life, and like to have fun and be silly, that they have less intellectual capacity and less ability to be serious?

Is it because you are still thinking that the purpose of THIS Forum is philosophy alone?

No matter how lofty and intellectual one may think one is, the vacuuming still has to be done, you still **** and make mess, hopefully you have friends and lovers, your bum still looks funny, hair still grows in places you wish it didn't, you still have to negotiate a world of other humans, other animals, your clothes still get dirty, you have to eat.....

This is the stuff of life....and it's interesting.

For myself, I get a whopping dose of the EV's (eternal verities) at work all day....I mostly want to have fun when I come here.

Philosophy is fun, too...I loved it when I studied it, but there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy, Specter.

even in these pants?

Just like everybody else, eh.

That should be a thread!

I am tending to think there ought to be some sort of disconnect that prevents it, (because one would hope that sick humour is a double-edged weapon with which to detect and prick both others' and one's own pomposity) but I am tragically aware that I am well capable of both.

That's a real bummer, really.


Mopes tragically off, laughing at herself through the tears....

especially in those pants...