The down arrow revisited

Not sure what you mean, dale. Why make a post with just an X in it? What for? As a kind of bookmark? So the thread appears in 'My Posts'? I think posts that just say 'x' are annoying.

And what has this got to do with 'down arrows'? What down arrows?

Except that to many posters, a "x" means a kiss..

No, I won't.

Now stop carping about such insignificant glop and get on with your life. You see, I find it easier to just ignore those topics which offend my sensitivities ( unless it's something truly putrid). When I log on again, those items are no longer highlighted as new and so, my viewing experience is much more pleasant.

Additionally, when you down vote the thread, if there are a gazillion others doing similar, then the topic...which may be quite useful and informitative, is obscured from viewing by everyone. This means you might miss out on discovering who the guest of honor will be at the annual Apple Valley Barbeque.

Sturgis - you can, in y0ur preferences page, choose not to have threads collapse because others use down votes.

Oh...

...So much for my new year's resolution not to learn something new on Wednesdays.

Dale, to get rid of the red NEW, just refresh the page. No need to annoy the rest of us with x's on posts.

Lord Cen, sometimes I don't either

I was under the mistaken impression that to achieve deletion of the red NEW, it would be necessary first to establish a posting. As it turns out I was wrong so that step can be skipped

I must have meant thumb down. Just wait 'til you're 86

Thanks Stur I wasn't aware of that particular technicality. But as I inferred in my OP, I've quit doin' that tho as Osso says above, you can always avoid the possibility, tho entailing even more keystrokes

Except of course Stur when you feel compelled to help the oldfella. For years I'd been saying much the same: If you don't like me, don't read by postings. But even that didn't work, apparently 'cause it required too many additional keystrokes--by somebody--somewhere

Thanks Oss but so I finally learned as you can see from the later posting

smiles

Does this mean you've stopped posting "x" in every single thread?

(By the way, now all of those threads will show up in your list of threads that you've posted in.)

Oh...So much for my new year's resolution not to learn something new on Tuesday.

Sure enuf Ora

Alas, Al, Also they All do

My most stringent apologies New

? No, in fact 86, And, doubtless Also, accounting for All the Alarm; Alas, no Alibi Allowed

Still Ora I might have to resort to the "x" since otherwise the NEWapparently returns next time somebody else responds

These things always turn out more difficult....
So any more ideas....

Yea Stur many could get that impression at a quick glance but the down-arrow ambiguity is serious to many of us. Maybe you could suggest a better way to curtail a listing

...but permanently so it doesn't come back without your new posting

But thanks Stur for your interest

Yea Osso that does temporarily erase it but then later it comes back....

The red NEW is for posts you haven't looked at yet, but if you don't refresh the page, you'll still see the red new. You can go to the New Posts page, and get rid of all the reds you have looked at by refreshing the whole new posts page (not just the immediate page the post is on).

I just caught on - you want to erase the post since you read it? Or merely get red of the red NEW?

THREADS - if you don't want to see them or are finished reading the thread and don't want to see it again, then thumb down. Most of us do that easily with subject matter we are not at all interested in; it's a kind of housekeeping.
POSTS ON THREADS - if you don't want to see someone's post, down thumb it, or put the person on ignore. Most of us let stuff that we don't like go, or we'd be down thumbing way too much and it can be kind of mean. If you've already read it and are fine with it, just refresh the page and the red New will go away.

Some of us try hard not to downthumb posts, and do that relatively rarely, resorting to discussion or arguing, just letting it go, or resorting to ignore. On the other hand, rewarding interesting posts with a thumb up is a friendlier move.

Thanks Oss but it does entail just a whole lot of additional keystrokes and so at risk of repetition, I still hope a2k Management or whatever it's called hereabout, will devise some new and quick way to delete the entry in a listing